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Citation rules/Bluepages/B6 Abbreviations, Numerals, and Symbols

Replace the numeral with a word

Style note2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions

A count below one hundred is written out as a word in a brief’s text — “twelve motions”, not “12 motions” — though a citation’s own locator numbers and a series reaching one hundred stay as figures.1

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  1. 1B6 Abbreviations, Numerals, and Symbols. Tables: R. 6.2(a) Numerals.
  2. 2A style note: the rule in note 1 allows both forms and prefers one.
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  1. Abbreviate the history phrase
  2. Abbreviate to "ex rel."
  3. Add a comma after the citation
  4. Add the pincite for each reporter
  5. Lowercase the signal
  6. Remove the closing period
  7. Replace the numeral with a word
  8. Replace the period with a comma
  9. Replace the word with a numeral

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More in Bluepages

  1. Abbreviate the history phrase
  2. Abbreviate to "ex rel."
  3. Add a comma after the citation
  4. Add the pincite for each reporter
  5. Lowercase the signal
  6. Remove the closing period
  7. Replace the numeral with a word
  8. Replace the period with a comma
  9. Replace the word with a numeral

Back to Bluepages

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