LexTyp

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Stop fighting with footnotes. Pick a citation style, drop in your references, and get a publication-ready PDF — live, as you type. Free & open source.

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OSCOLA, Harvard, APA, Chicago, IEEE — switch with one click. Import your .bib file and never hand-format a footnote again.

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Type /citation, pick your source, and LexTyp formats the footnote for you — OSCOLA ibid rules, Harvard author-date, all of it. Switch styles anytime.

  • OSCOLA — Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities, the UK standard for law journals and dissertations.
  • APA, Harvard, Chicago — widely used across social sciences, humanities, and interdisciplinary legal research.
  • IEEE — for technical law and technology policy papers.
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The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty

has been examined extensively by scholars.

#footnote[

AV Dicey, Introduction to the Study

of the Law of the Constitution

(8th edn, Macmillan 1915)

]

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.msi / .exe installer
macOS
.dmg (Apple Silicon & Intel)
Linux
.deb package

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