subcite

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ cite.

Verb

subcite (third-person singular simple present subcites, present participle subciting, simple past and past participle subcited)

1. (transitive, intransitive, Harvard Law School) To review and verify the citations in an legal article.
   • 1992, Richard D. Kahlenberg, Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School, Boston, M.A., London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 62:

     On June 3, the games began. I joined the long line of two hundred 1Ls to pick up the 650-page packet containing the article to be subcited, the information for the case note, and all the relevant cases.

   • 2013 October 7, Dev A. Patel, “Number of Female Harvard Law Review Editors Nearly Doubled in First Gender-Based Affirmative Action Cycle”, in The Harvard Crimson‎^[1], Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard Crimson, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-04-02:

     In the admissions process, interested candidates participate in a writing competition consisting of a 'subcite' component, which involves correcting errors in a short written piece and a commentary section in which applicants report and analyze a recent case before the United States Supreme Court. This week-long process takes place after the completion of first-year final exams in the spring semester.

   • 2021 June 30, Jonathan Zittrain, “The Internet Is Rotting”, in The Atlantic‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-06:

     One of the more stultifying rites of passage for entering law students is to "subcite," checking the citations within scholarship in progress to make sure they are in the exacting and byzantine form required by legal-citation standards, and, more directly, to make sure the source itself exists and says what the citing author says it says.

Derived terms

• subciter

 

Anagrams

• subiect