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Upload your article. Ibid extracts every citation and generates a Bluebook-formatted sourcepull for law review editors, clerks, and anyone who cite-checks.

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How it works

Three steps. That's it.

Upload your article

Drop in a .docx file — footnotes, endnotes, and all.

Ibid extracts citations

Every case, statute, and secondary source — identified and parsed in real time.

Download your sourcepull

Export a finished table to Google Sheets, TSV, or review it in the browser.

Features

Built for cite checkers

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Real-time extraction

Upload a .docx and watch Ibid work through every footnote — identifying cases, statutes, and secondary sources as it goes. No waiting in the dark.

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Review and edit in-browser

Catch anything that needs adjusting before you export. Edit cells, undo changes, and search across results — all without leaving the browser.

Citation extraction results opened in Google Sheets

One-click export

Open directly in Google Sheets, download as a TSV, or grab the original document. Whatever format your team already uses.

Autopull

Every source, looked up automatically

Ibid classifies each citation by type, then pulls the full source from the right database — cases, statutes, regulations, bills, patents, and more.

Case Law

CourtListener Google Scholar Supreme Court

Federal Statutes

U.S. Code Cornell LII GovInfo

Federal Regulations

eCFR Federal Register GovInfo

Legislative Materials

Congress.gov Legiscan GovInfo

Patents & IP

USPTO Google Patents

Academic & Secondary

HeinOnline SSRN

Sources are classified and retrieved automatically during extraction — no manual lookup required.

Built on the Bluebook, 22nd edition.
Every rule, abbreviation table, and formatting convention — applied automatically.

Powered by AI fine-tuned on legal citation patterns, with structured rule logic for Bluebook-compliant formatting.

Built by a former Stanford Law Review editor

Not affiliated with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation or Stanford University. Citations follow Bluebook (22nd ed.) format. Always verify against official sources.

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