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Citation rules/Tables/T1.2 Federal Administrative and Executive Materials

Abbreviate the bureau’s name

Error2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions

Table T1.2 fixes one author string for a Department of State human-rights report and shortens the bureau named inside it; the bureau's full name belongs in the surrounding text rather than in the citation.1

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  1. 1T1.2 Department of State. Tables: R. 15.1(c) Institutional authors.
  2. 2An error: the rule in note 1 allows one form, and this is not it.
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  1. Abbreviate the bureau’s name
  2. Abbreviate the ruling series
  3. Add the docket number and full date
  4. Add the Federal Register cite or move Q&A
  5. Add the letter's release date
  6. Add the missing parenthetical
  7. Add the opposing agency
  8. Move the description of the decision
  9. Move the release citations into order

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More in T1.2 Federal Administrative and Executive Materials

  1. Abbreviate the bureau’s name
  2. Abbreviate the ruling series
  3. Add the docket number and full date
  4. Add the Federal Register cite or move Q&A
  5. Add the letter's release date
  6. Add the missing parenthetical
  7. Add the opposing agency
  8. Move the description of the decision
  9. Move the release citations into order

Back to Tables

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