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Citation rules/Typeface conventions/2.1 Typeface Conventions for Citations

Remove italics from the participle

Error2Law reviews21st and 22nd editions

Explanatory phrases in a citation are italicized, but the word opening a related-authority parenthetical — “quoting”, “citing”, “translating” — stays in plain type.1

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  1. 1R. 2.1(e) Explanatory phrases. Tables: R. 1.6 Related Authority.
  2. 2An error: the rule in note 1 allows one form, and this is not it.
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More in 2.1 Typeface Conventions for Citations

  1. Italicize the article title
  2. Italicize the history phrase
  3. Italicize the procedural phrase
  4. Italicize the short-form case name
  5. Italicize the signal
  6. Remove italics from the case name
  7. Remove italics from the name in the title
  8. Remove italics from the newspaper byline
  9. Remove italics from the participle

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More in 2.1 Typeface Conventions for Citations

  1. Italicize the article title
  2. Italicize the history phrase
  3. Italicize the procedural phrase
  4. Italicize the short-form case name
  5. Italicize the signal
  6. Remove italics from the case name
  7. Remove italics from the name in the title
  8. Remove italics from the newspaper byline
  9. Remove italics from the participle

Back to Typeface conventions

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