Add the volume number or the year
Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
A session-law citation opens with the compilation's volume number, or its year when the compilation runs by year instead; neither can be read off the rest of the citation.1
- 1R. 12.4(b) Volume. Tables: T1.1 Federal Judicial and Legislative Materials; T1.3 States and the District of Columbia.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
More in 12.4 Session Laws
- Add the page of the cited section
- Add the page the act begins on
- Add the public law or chapter number
- Add the volume number or the year
- Add the year the act passed
- Remove the duplicate year parenthetical
- Remove the year parenthetical
- Set the session laws’ name in roman type
- Use “ch.” for the chapter designator