Add the footnote number to “supra”
Error2Law reviews21st and 22nd editions
A bare “supra” relies on its footnote number to send the reader to the earlier footnote holding the full citation. It carries no number only when that full citation is in the same footnote.1
- 1R. 4.2(a) “Supra.”.
- 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
- Move the parenthetical after the bracket