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Citation rules/Capitalisation

Capitalisation.

Court, party, title, and constitutional capitalisation in briefs.

25 rules.

  • 8(a)Capitalize the title's lowercase word
  • 8(a)Lowercase short words in an article title
  • 8(a)Lowercase the short word in the title
  • 8(d)(i)Capitalize "Congress"
  • 8(d)(i)Capitalize the agency's initialism
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize “Act” in the statute’s name
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize “Circuit”
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize “Federal”
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize the amendment’s name
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize the bare “constitution”
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize the constitution’s name
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize the court’s full name
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize the judge’s title
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize the multi-word judicial title
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize the named code
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize the state as a party or actor
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize the state as the defending party
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize the state before a capitalized noun
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize the state named as a party
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize the state’s full title
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize the Supreme Court Justice’s title
  • 8(d)(ii)Capitalize the Supreme Court's Term
  • 8(d)(ii)Lowercase “federal”
  • 8(d)(ii)Lowercase the adjective form
  • 8(d)(ii)Use the case a constitution's parts take

Check a document against these 25 rules.

Also in this part of the book: Structure and signals, Typeface conventions, Subdivisions and pincites, Short forms and id., Quotations, Abbreviations and numbers, Titles of officials.

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