Remove the article from the title
Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
Table BT1 drops the articles as well as the prepositions from an abbreviated court-document title: “Def.’s Mem. Supp. Summ. J.”, not “Def.’s Mem. in Supp. of the Summ. J.”.1
- Wrong
- Def.’s Mem. in Supp. of the Summ. J.
- Right
- Def.’s Mem. Supp. Summ. J.
- 1B17.1.1 Abbreviation; BT1 Court Documents.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.