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Citation rules/Typeface conventions

Typeface conventions.

What is italicised and what is roman, in a brief and in a law review.

22 rules on 3 pages of the book.

In this chapter

  • 2.1Typeface Conventions for Citations12
  • 2.2Typeface Conventions for Textual Material9
  • 2.3Other Punctuation Conventions1

2.1Typeface Conventions for Citations

  • 2.1(a)Italicize the procedural phrase
  • 2.1(a)Italicize the short-form case name
  • 2.1(a)Remove italics from the case name
  • 2.1(a)Remove italics from the name in the title
  • 2.1(c)Italicize the article title
  • 2.1(c)Remove italics from the newspaper byline
  • 2.1(d)Italicize the signal
  • 2.1(d)Remove italics from the signal
  • 2.1(e)Italicize the history phrase
  • 2.1(e)Remove italics from the participle
  • 2.1(f)Remove italics from the separator
  • 2.1(g)Remove the emphasis from alteration marks

2.2Typeface Conventions for Textual Material

  • 2.2(a)Move the citation into a footnote
  • 2.2(a)(i)Italicize the case name
  • 2.2(b)(i)Italicize the case name
  • 2.2(b)(i)Remove italics from the case name
  • 2.2(b)(ii)Italicize “supra”
  • 2.2(b)(ii)Italicize the title named in prose
  • 2.2(b)(ii)Use small caps for the author
  • 2.2(b)(iii)Remove italics from the case name
  • 2.2(c)Remove italics from the separating mark

2.3Other Punctuation Conventions

  • Remove the extra space after punctuation

Check a document against these 22 rules.

Also in this part of the book: Structure and signals, Subdivisions and pincites, Short forms and id., Quotations, Abbreviations and numbers, Capitalisation, Titles of officials.

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