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The most frequently used style manual for citing to Legal Documents is the The Bluebook : a uniform system of citation. A legal citation is a reference to a legal document such as a case, statute, law review article, etc. Most legal citations consist of the name of the document case, statute, law review article , an abbreviation for the legal series, and the date.
The abbreviation for the legal series usually appears as a number followed by the abbreviated name of the series and ends in another number. For example: Morse v. Frederick, U. Chat With Us.
Boston College Libraries. Mission Ask Us. Find Books, Media, and more. Outside BC. Cases, or judicial opinions, can be published by more than one publisher. The text of the opinions will be the same in the official or unofficial sources, but the unofficial may contain additional editorial features which differ from the official. In California, the State Supreme Court cases are published officially in the California Reports, series ; the Court of Appeals cases are officially published in the California Appellate Reports, series Federal cases are cited in the same format as California cases.
Citations to California Codes do not begin with numbers; instead, the title of the code name is followed by the section number, the publisher, and the date of the volume not the date the individual code section was enacted. Parallel cites are not used for the code, since there is no official code for California. Citations to the United States Code follow the same general format as cases; however, the first number refers to the title of the United States Code rather than a volume number, and the second number refers to the section number of the code rather than the page number.
Parallel cites are not used for the code, since the numbering is uniform for both official and unofficial codes. The unofficial codes are designated by their own abbreviations, U. West and U. It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older.
This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. The typical form of a citation to a decision includes: the names of the lead parties in most cases, the plaintiff or appellant versus the defendant or appellee , a number representing the volume of the reporter, an abbreviation of the name of the reporter, a second number providing the first page of the decision, and in parentheses, an abbreviation for the court and the year the decision was issued.
Citation of legal authorities. Compiled by the editors of the Columbia law review, the Harvard law review, the University of Pennsylvania law review, and the Yale law journal. Online Legal Citation Guides Online resources provide basic legal citation guidance, but should be used as a supplement to not a substitute for the Bluebook. Subjects: American Law.
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