Use the source's official abbreviation
Error2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
A foreign source cited by its full name and introduced in brackets takes the abbreviation T2 gives it, not a variant of the writer's own choosing.1
- 1R. 20.3.2(b) Source. Tables: R. 20.2.3 Abbreviations in Languages Other than English; T2 Foreign Jurisdictions.
- 2An error: the rule in note 1 allows one form, and this is not it.
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- Abbreviate the foreign jurisdiction
- Abbreviate the statute's jurisdiction
- Add the abbreviation in square brackets
- Add the bracketed English title
- Add the bracketed rendering
- Add the full name at the first use
- Capitalize the translation's first word
- Give the name's own rendering
- Use the source's official abbreviation