The Zotero Connector does not always detect that an online document is a case and therefore it may not grab all of the required citation information. If this happens, you will have to manually create or edit the Zotero record yourself.
To manually create a new record in your Zotero library, click the green New Item icon 
and select 'Case' from the drop-down menu.
The Zotero case template is not optimized for the rules of Canadian legal citation. As a result, some workarounds are necessary.
For example, there is no field for a Canadian neutral citation in the Zotero case template. Therefore, one of the other fields in the case template must be repurposed. We recommend typing the neutral citation into the 'Court' field and deleting any information in the 'Date Decided', 'Reporter', 'Reporter Volume' and 'Page' fields (see example below). This will produce a properly formatted citation in the resulting bibliography or footnote.
If the case you are citing does not have a neutral citation, then the McGill Guide recommends using a CanLII citation (if available) as the primary citation.
You can use the same process described above, except instead of typing the neutral citation into the 'Court' field, you can enter the CanLII citation.
Type the full CanLII citation into the 'Court' field, including the court abbreviation in parentheses at the end of the citation. Delete any information in the 'Date Decided', 'Reporter', 'Reporter Volume' and 'Page' fields (see example below).
If the case you are citing has neither a neutral citation nor a CanLII citation, then you may use another source as your main citation. The Zotero case template can accommodate the bibliographic information for one print law reporter citation, as shown in the example below (notice how the 'Date Decided', 'Reporter', 'Reporter Volume', and 'First Page' fields are all filled in).
Despite the availability of fields for print law reporter information in the Zotero case template, Zotero may not be able to generate a correctly formatted case citation from this information (for example, if the date of the decision is different from the date of the law reporter). Therefore, you may may need to make further manual edits to the citation in a resulting footnote or bibliography.
►See Fixing a Mistake in a Citation for further instructions.
The McGill Guide requires the use of a second parallel citation to accompany the main citation in certain situations. However, the Zotero case template does not include space for a parallel citation. If a parallel citation is required, we recommend saving the parallel citation into a Note that is attached to the Zotero record for the case (see image below).
When you use Zotero to generate a case citation within a footnote or bibliography, you can copy one of the parallel citations from the Note and paste it directly into the Zotero-generated citation.
►See Fixing Mistake in a Citation for further instructions.
