Patent Document ID: 10002116
Application ID: 14059403

Base Claim:
1. A computer-based method for processing one or more citations for inclusion in an electronic document, the method comprising: editing an electronic document via a document rendering application; presenting a citation interface for receiving from a user input a set of citation terms related to a citation for inclusion in the electronic document; identifying a set of at least one citation record from at least one citation authority based at least in part on the received set of citation terms; presenting a representation of one or more of the identified set of at least one citation record to a user for selection of a citation for inclusion in the electronic document; receiving an electronic signal representing a user selection of a citation from the presented one or more of the set of at least one citation record; and inserting into the electronic document citation data from the corresponding citation record associated with the selected citation.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the citation authority comprises a set of at least one authority database accessible over a communications network.