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Citation rules/Foreign materials/20.6 Non-English-Language and Foreign Periodicals

Add the year of publication

Style note2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions

A citation to a foreign-language periodical article gives the year of publication, placed after the page and before the country of publication.1

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  1. 1R. 20.6(b) Foreign-language sources. Tables: R. 16.4 Consecutively Paginated Journals; R. 16.5 Nonconsecutively Paginated Journals and Magazines; R. 20.2.2 Titles and Names of Documents in Languages Other than English; R. 20.2.3 Abbreviations in Languages Other than English.
  2. 2A style note: the rule in note 1 allows both forms and prefers one.
PreviousAdd the periodical’s abbreviation in bracketsNextUse a short form

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  1. Abbreviate the foreign jurisdiction
  2. Abbreviate the periodical's place name
  3. Abbreviate the statute's jurisdiction
  4. Add the abbreviation in square brackets
  5. Add the bracketed English title
  6. Add the bracketed rendering
  7. Add the country-of-origin parenthetical
  8. Add the periodical’s abbreviation in brackets
  9. Add the year of publication

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More in Foreign materials

  1. Abbreviate the foreign jurisdiction
  2. Abbreviate the periodical's place name
  3. Abbreviate the statute's jurisdiction
  4. Add the abbreviation in square brackets
  5. Add the bracketed English title
  6. Add the bracketed rendering
  7. Add the country-of-origin parenthetical
  8. Add the periodical’s abbreviation in brackets
  9. Add the year of publication

Back to Foreign materials

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