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Citation rules/Internet and media/18.9 Short Citation Forms

Add the subsection title

Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st edition only

A website's short form names the subsection when the document cites more than one part of the same site, or several postings by one author; otherwise the name stands for two different pages.1

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  1. 1R. 18.9(a) Internet. Tables: R. 4.2(a) “Supra.”.
  2. 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
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  1. Abbreviate the author's name
  2. Abbreviate the reprint author's name
  3. Abbreviate the site's name
  4. Add the emoji's Unicode number
  5. Add the omitted emoji's Unicode number
  6. Add the subsection title
  7. Move the kind of work before the year
  8. Move the reprint year after the author
  9. Remove the pincite or the page reference

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More in Internet and media

  1. Abbreviate the author's name
  2. Abbreviate the reprint author's name
  3. Abbreviate the site's name
  4. Add the emoji's Unicode number
  5. Add the omitted emoji's Unicode number
  6. Add the subsection title
  7. Move the kind of work before the year
  8. Move the reprint year after the author
  9. Remove the pincite or the page reference

Back to Internet and media

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