Move the registration to the full citation
Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
A short form's registration belongs on the full citation that introduces the source, so the reader meets the handle and the source together, not on a citation pointing back to it.1
- 1R. 4.2(b) “Hereinafter.”. Tables: R. 4.2(a) “Supra.”; R. 4.1 “Id.”.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify 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
- Move the registration to the full citation