Citation Workbench v1.1.3

For law students and practitioners

Check your Bluebook citations before someone else does.

Upload a memo, brief, essay, note, or article. Citation Workbench checks citation form under the Bluepages or Whitepages, suggests corrections, and can check case citations and quotations against the Westlaw PDFs you upload. You keep the final say.

Choose your computer below. Each download includes a short START HERE guide. No command line or technical setup is required.

Desktop downloads

Choose one version

Windows 10 or 11

Download for Windows

Extract the ZIP, open the CitationWorkbench folder, and run CitationWorkbench.exe.

Download Windows ZIP

Version 1.1.3 · About 47 MB · Instructions included

Apple Silicon only

Download for Mac

For Macs with an M1 or later Apple chip. An unsigned-app warning is expected the first time you open it.

Download Mac ZIP

Version 1.1.3 · Apple Silicon · Instructions included

Nothing to install

Use the web edition

Best for a quick check, Intel Macs, or computers where you cannot install an app. Uploads are deleted after processing.

Open the web app

The first visit may take about a minute to start. Word (DOCX) files give the most accurate formatting checks.

Mac users

The first-launch warning is expected.

This app is not signed with an Apple Developer ID. You do not need Terminal, and you should not turn off macOS security.

  1. Try to open Citation Workbench.app once.
  2. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security.
  3. Scroll to Security and choose Open Anyway.
  4. Authenticate if asked, then choose Open.

View Apple's official instructions

What it checks

The mistakes that cost points and credibility.

Case citations

Table T6 abbreviations like "Bd. of Educ.", reporters, pincites, page ranges, and court-and-date parentheticals, including when to leave the court out.

Signals and parentheticals

"See, e.g.," punctuation, signal typeface, explanatory parentheticals, short forms like Id., and subsequent history.

Statutes and more

U.S.C. and state codes, constitutions, court rules, regulations, secondary sources, and web citations.

Important: Citation Workbench checks citation form and finds matching passages in sources you upload. It does not decide whether an authority supports your argument or is still good law. Findings marked "Verify" or "Manual check" mean the tool could not decide, not that your citation is wrong.