Can I convert my whole bibliography to OSCOLA at once?

Yes. Upload your .docx, pick OSCOLA, and every reference in the document re-formats together — you don't reformat them one by one.

Do I have to retype my references?

No. DEEPNOTIS reads the citations already in your footnotes or endnotes, structures them, and re-renders them in the target style. Nothing is retyped.

Does it work inside Microsoft Word?

You upload a Word .docx and download a reformatted Word .docx. The whole process runs in your browser — there's nothing to install.

How much does it cost?

It's free to start — 3 documents a month, no card required. Paid plans add more documents, AI auto-labeling, and automatic bibliography generation.

Reformat references›to OSCOLA

How to reformat your references to OSCOLA in Word

Got a finished manuscript with the wrong citation style? You don't have to retype a single reference. OSCOLA is standard in law. Here's how to convert an entire bibliography to OSCOLA in minutes.

Quick answer

To reformat a whole document's references to OSCOLA in Word: upload your .docx to DEEPNOTIS, choose OSCOLA from the style picker, and export. Every footnote and reference list entry re-formats to OSCOLA at once — no manual retyping, and you can switch styles again any time.

The slow way — and why it hurts

Reformatting a bibliography by hand means rewriting every entry: re-ordering authors, fixing capitalization, moving the year, adding or stripping DOIs, and renumbering in-text markers. For a thesis with 50–100 references that's hours of fiddly work, and a single inconsistency is exactly what a supervisor or journal copy-editor flags. The work also has to be redone from scratch the moment you target a different journal.

The fast way — 3 steps

1
Upload your .docx
Upload the Word file that already contains your citations as footnotes or endnotes. DEEPNOTIS extracts every reference automatically.
2
Pick OSCOLA
Choose OSCOLA from 2,800+ styles. Every reference re-renders from the official CSL definition for OSCOLA.
3
Export your reformatted document
Download a .docx with every footnote and reference formatted in OSCOLA. Need another style later? Switch and re-export — the work is already done.

What changes when you switch to OSCOLA

OSCOLA has its own conventions for cases, statutes, and secondary sources, with citation detail that differs sharply from academic styles. Reformatting a legal manuscript by hand is error-prone; re-rendering from structured data keeps every footnote consistent.

Official source

OSCOLA is defined and maintained by the University of Oxford Faculty of Law (OSCOLA). DEEPNOTIS renders OSCOLA from the same canonical CSL definition, so your output matches the authoritative rules.

Reformat your whole document to OSCOLA

Upload your .docx and DEEPNOTIS re-formats every citation in OSCOLA, automatically. Free to start — 3 documents a month, no card.

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Last updated: 24 June 2026