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Citation rules/Typeface conventions/2.1 Typeface Conventions for Citations

Remove italics from the signal

Warning2Law reviews21st and 22nd editions

A signal is italicized where it introduces a citation sentence or clause; a signal doing the work an ordinary sentence's verb would do stays in plain type.1

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  1. 1R. 2.1(d) Introductory signals; R. 1.2(e) Signals as verbs.
  2. 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify 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 signal

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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 signal

Back to Typeface conventions

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