Remove the “hereinafter” registration
Error2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
A bracketed “hereinafter” short form is for secondary sources; primary authority is re-cited by repeating its own short form instead, unless its name is extraordinarily long.1
- 1R. 4.2 “Supra” and “Hereinafter”; B4 Short Citation Forms.
- 2An error: the rule in note 1 allows one form, and this is not it.
More in 4.2 “Supra” and “Hereinafter”
- Add “supra” after the short name
- Add a “hereinafter” short form
- Add a comma after the note number
- Add a comma before “supra”
- Add the footnote number to “supra”
- Add the full citation behind the “supra”
- Add the piece’s own author and title
- Italicize the registered short name
- Remove the “hereinafter” registration