An Access Key is a link between your document and a specific record in your datafile. Access keys are enclosed in curly braces, and contain one or more CiteKeys (or Access Phrases) for the work(s) cited. Specific page references can be included in the Access Key, for footnotes and short form in text citations. Citation can replace Access Keys with footnotes, endnotes, reference numbers for a list of works cited, or short form citations.

When Generate, Citations for document is run, Citation will replace Access Keys in a document with intext citations, and generate references for the works cited.

For example: To cite page 920 in the article by Patterson, entered here as a Citation record: We would enter the following Access key in our document:     {Patterson 1990: 920} When we run Generate Citations, this Access key will be replaced by the following footnote: L. Ray Patterson, Legal Ethics and the Lawyer's Duty of Loyalty, 29 Emory L.J. 909, 920 (1980).

Example of a document with Access keys citing authorities:

Recently it has become clear that AIDS is a profoundly controversial legal issue, having the potential to challenge the basic tenets of our penal system. According to one study, AIDS is fourteen times more prevalent in our prison systems than in the general population. {Mayer 1995: 520} In various articles and essays published in recent years, it has been argued that these statistics compel us to rethink the implications of sentencing in general, {Jurgens 1994} and perhaps even the constitutionality of incarceration. {AIDS in Prison 1992; Boyne 1991; Vaid 1987}