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Citation rules/Administrative materials/14.4 State Materials

Abbreviate the state

Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts22nd edition only

A state administrative adjudication with no official reporter closes on a parenthetical naming the state, agency and year; the state half takes the table's abbreviation, not the writer's own spelling.1

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  1. 1R. 14.4(c) Administrative adjudications and arbitrations. Tables: T10 Geographical Terms.
  2. 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
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  5. Add the C.F.R. edition year
  6. Add the commenter's name
  7. Add the database's identifying codes
  8. Add the date of publication
  9. Add the year of the decision

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More in Administrative materials

  1. Abbreviate the agency periodical's name
  2. Abbreviate the agency's name
  3. Abbreviate the state
  4. Add a parenthetical naming the database
  5. Add the C.F.R. edition year
  6. Add the commenter's name
  7. Add the database's identifying codes
  8. Add the date of publication
  9. Add the year of the decision

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