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Citation rules/Tables

Tables.

Reporters, courts, jurisdictions and abbreviations, table by table.

152 rules on 48 pages of the book.

In this chapter

  • T1.1Federal Judicial and Legislative Materials2
  • T1.2Federal Administrative and Executive Materials18
  • T1.3States and the District of Columbia7
  • T10Geographical Terms1
  • T12Months1
  • T13Institutional Names in Periodical Titles2
  • T2.1Argentine Republic1
  • T2.2Australia9
  • T2.3Austria, Republic of1
  • T2.5Brazil, Federative Republic of1
  • T2.6Canada5
  • T2.8Chile, Republic of1
  • T2.9China, People's Republic of3
  • T2.11Czechia4
  • T2.14Germany, Federal Republic of3
  • T2.15Greece1
  • T2.16Hong Kong1
  • T2.17Hungary, Republic of2
  • T2.18India4
  • T2.19Iran, Islamic Republic of2
  • T2.20Iraq, Republic of3
  • T2.22Israel9
  • T2.24Japan2
  • T2.27Malaysia1
  • T2.28Mexico4
  • T2.29Netherlands, Kingdom of the1
  • T2.30New Zealand7
  • T2.34Philippines3
  • T2.35Portugal, Republic of6
  • T2.36Roman Law1
  • T2.37Russian Federation5
  • T2.38South Africa3
  • T2.39South Korea1
  • T2.40Spain2
  • T2.42Sweden4
  • T2.43Switzerland7
  • T2.44Taiwan, Republic of China1
  • T2.45Türkiye, Republic of2
  • T2.46United Kingdom11
  • T2.47Zambia, Republic of1
  • T3.4European Commission of Human Rights1
  • T3.5European Court of Human Rights1
  • T3.6Inter-American Commission on Human Rights1
  • T3.7Inter-American Court of Human Rights1
  • T3.8International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea1
  • T3.9Intergovernmental Organizations1
  • T6Case Names and Institutional Authors in Citations2
  • T9Legislative Documents1

T1.1Federal Judicial and Legislative Materials

  • Add the case number
  • Use the chapter number

T1.2Federal Administrative and Executive Materials

  • Abbreviate the bureau’s name
  • Abbreviate the ruling series
  • Add the docket number and full date
  • Add the Federal Register cite or move Q&A
  • Add the letter's release date
  • Add the missing parenthetical
  • Add the opposing agency
  • Move the description of the decision
  • Move the release citations into order
  • Remove the publisher or date parenthetical
  • Remove the publisher parenthetical
  • Use a column, figure or item pincite
  • Use the agency's abbreviation correctly
  • Use the Commission’s letter form
  • Use the Commission’s release form
  • Use the order party, docket, then source
  • Use the pending application form
  • Use the trademark board's citation form

T1.3States and the District of Columbia

  • Add the act/section slash
  • Remove the parallel "N.Y.S." citation
  • Remove the section symbol
  • Replace the year or the abbreviation
  • Use "Tex." for the Supreme Court of Texas
  • Use a page pincite
  • Use the public-domain citation

T10Geographical Terms

  • Replace the abbreviation with the place name

T12Months

  • Use the standard month abbreviation

T13Institutional Names in Periodical Titles

  • Remove the comma from the periodical name
  • Use "IMF" for the fund survey's title

T2.1Argentine Republic

  • Move the panel after the province

T2.2Australia

  • Abbreviate the case name
  • Abbreviate the case name
  • Add the jurisdiction tag
  • Move the official reporter first
  • Remove the comma between subdivisions
  • Remove the leading words in the case name
  • Remove the marker for the other parties
  • Use square brackets for the proceeding number
  • Use square brackets for the year

T2.3Austria, Republic of

  • T2.3.1Use number-over-year for the gazette locator

T2.5Brazil, Federative Republic of

  • Abbreviate the volume word

T2.6Canada

  • Add the article number
  • Add the province to the parenthetical
  • Move the neutral citation first
  • Remove the repeated year of decision
  • Use round parentheses for the year

T2.8Chile, Republic of

  • Use the Spanish party separator

T2.9China, People's Republic of

  • Abbreviate the source's name
  • Abbreviate the subdivision
  • Add the constitution's version year

T2.11Czechia

  • Use "Sb.m.s." for a later treaty
  • Use the collection of laws
  • Use the collection of laws for a treaty
  • Use the designation for the ruling's kind

T2.14Germany, Federal Republic of

  • Move the section number first
  • Use the chamber's paper number form
  • Use the gazette's second part

T2.15Greece

  • Use the part and issue before the date

T2.16Hong Kong

  • Abbreviate the case name

T2.17Hungary, Republic of

  • Abbreviate the kind of decree
  • Use “Korm.” for the issuing body

T2.18India

  • Add the committee or the session
  • Add the ordinance's date
  • Use the chamber's official report
  • Use the government gazette

T2.19Iran, Islamic Republic of

  • Add the article number
  • Add the translation or the year

T2.20Iraq, Republic of

  • Add the court's geographic area
  • Add the missing gazette issue number and/or date
  • Move the provision before the name

T2.22Israel

  • Add or abbreviate the case type
  • Remove the court from the citation
  • Replace the abbreviation with the town
  • Replace the year or the compilation
  • Use "Case" for the case type
  • Use "DK" for Knesset proceedings
  • Use "KA" for Israeli treaties
  • Use "PD" for the Supreme Court reporter
  • Use the Hebrew law citation form

T2.24Japan

  • Use the apostrophe spelling of the word
  • Use the macron spelling of the word

T2.27Malaysia

  • Add the enacting state

T2.28Mexico

  • Move the edition before the translator
  • Shorten the author list
  • Use "en" before the book's title
  • Use the Diario Oficial de la Federación

T2.29Netherlands, Kingdom of the

  • Use "Ktr." after the 2002 merger

T2.30New Zealand

  • Add the registry town
  • Add the year or the volume
  • Move "(PC)" behind the first page
  • Remove one of the two report citations
  • Remove the as-amended tag
  • Remove the court from the citation
  • Use the delimiter this series takes

T2.34Philippines

  • Add a second treaty source
  • Add the legislation type and number
  • Add the missing treaty dates

T2.35Portugal, Republic of

  • Add a link to the first citation
  • Add the bracketed translation
  • Add the missing gazette addresses
  • Remove the division above the article
  • Remove the year from the citation
  • Use Parliament's own gazette

T2.36Roman Law

  • Remove the collection's title

T2.37Russian Federation

  • Remove the repeated title
  • Use a central committee bulletin
  • Use the agency legal acts bulletin
  • Use the official gazette
  • Use the Soviet regulation collection

T2.38South Africa

  • Add the notice number or the date
  • Add the volume number
  • Remove the act number

T2.39South Korea

  • Add the amendment's number and date

T2.40Spain

  • Use the decision abbreviation
  • Use the official state gazette

T2.42Sweden

  • Move the subdivision before the name
  • Use the compilation's abbreviation
  • Use the paired abbreviation or name
  • Use the source's own abbreviation

T2.43Switzerland

  • Add the federal compilation citation
  • Add the missing volume or decision number
  • Use a short form
  • Use the gazette form for the year cited
  • Use the matching-language reporter
  • T2.43.1Add the term or the folio number
  • T2.43.1Move the English Reports before the original

T2.44Taiwan, Republic of China

  • Abbreviate the court's name

T2.45Türkiye, Republic of

  • Add the application number
  • Move the date before the case numbers

T2.46United Kingdom

  • Add the "appeal taken from" parenthetical
  • Add the year of the act
  • Use round parentheses for the year
  • Use square brackets for the year
  • Use square brackets for the year
  • Use the regnal year's citation form
  • T2.46.1Add the law term or plea number
  • T2.46.2Add the jurisdiction to the act's title
  • T2.46.2Add the jurisdiction to the statute's title
  • T2.46.2Use the jurisdiction inside the title
  • T2.46.3Add the year or the volume number

T2.47Zambia, Republic of

  • Add the missing source citation

T3.4European Commission of Human Rights

  • Use a recognized reporter for this decision

T3.5European Court of Human Rights

  • Use a recognized source for this judgment

T3.6Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

  • Use the Commission's printed abbreviation

T3.7Inter-American Court of Human Rights

  • Use a source the Court publishes

T3.8International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

  • Use the Tribunal's own abbreviation

T3.9Intergovernmental Organizations

  • Use square brackets for the abbreviation

T6Case Names and Institutional Authors in Citations

  • Abbreviate the possessive case name
  • Remove the surplus word from the title

T9Legislative Documents

  • Replace the abbreviation with "Annals"

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