Answered By: Keely Wilczek
Last Updated: Mar 14, 2024     Views: 112

While Zotero does include item types for these sources - hearings, and statutes for laws - best practice is to manually enter these citations in your Word document when using Chicago because legal formatting in this style is not yet completely built into Zotero.

See the Legal and Public Documents section of the Chicago Manual of Style, beginning with 14.269 for more information. 

If you work with legal citations frequently, you may also want to explore switching from Zotero to Juris-M, which was forked from Zotero specifically to address the needs of legal researchers. Harvard Law Library has a useful guide to Juris-M