Use the reporter’s table form
Error2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
Adjacent single capitals in a reporter close up, and a longer abbreviation takes a space: “F.3d” but “F. Supp. 2d”. A brief may close a reporter up; Illinois prints the spaced form.1
- 1R. 6.1(a) Spacing; B6 Abbreviations, Numerals, and Symbols; R. 10.3.2 Reporters; B10.1.3 Court and Year of Decision. Tables: T1.1 Federal Judicial and Legislative Materials; T1.2 Federal Administrative and Executive Materials; T1.3 States and the District of Columbia.
- 2An error: the rule in note 1 allows one form, and this is not it.
More in Abbreviations and numbers
- Add a period after the abbreviation
- Add a space after the symbol
- Add a space in the abbreviation
- Add the period on the court abbreviation
- Remove the period after the apostrophe
- Remove the space between initials
- Use periods in the geographic abbreviation
- Use periods in the reporter or court name
- Use the reporter’s table form