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Citation rules/Administrative materials/14.4 State Materials

Add a parenthetical naming the database

Warning²Federal courts, Illinois courts21st edition only

A database identifier built from an initialism does not always say which service assigned it; where it does not, a parenthetical after the citation is needed to name the service.¹

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1R. 14.4 Commercial Electronic Databases.
2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.

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Add the C.F.R. edition year
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