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Citation rules/Tables/T1.1 Federal Judicial and Legislative Materials

Use the chapter number

Error²Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions

A session law from before 1957 is never cited with a public law number. Acts carry public law numbers only from the 85th Congress onward; earlier ones are cited by the chapter number the Statutes at Large gave them.¹

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1T1.1 Federal Judicial and Legislative Materials. Tables: R. 12.4 Session Laws.
2An error: the rule in note 1 allows one form, and this is not it.

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Abbreviate the bureau’s name
Abbreviate the ruling series
Add the case number
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
Use the chapter number

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