Manual of Legal Citation/Books & Non-Periodicals

Manual of Legal Citation Table of Contents

Foreword and Introduction

Foreword

Introduction

Background Rules

Rule 1. Two Types of Legal Documents

Rule 2. Typeface Standards

Rule 3. In-Text Citations

Rule 4. Signals

Rule 5. Capitalization Rules

Rule 6. Signals for Supporting Authority

Rule 7. Signals for Comparison

Rule 8. Signals for Contradictory Authority

Rule 9. Signals for Background Material

Rule 10. Order of Authorities Within Each Signal / Strength of Authority

Cases

Rule 11. Full citation

Rule 12. Court & Year

Rule 13. Weight of Authority and Explanatory Parenthetical

Rule 14. History of the Case

Rule 15. Short Form Citation for Cases

Statutes, Rules, Regulations, and Other Legislative & Administrative Materials

Rule 16. Federal Statutes

Rule 17. State Statutes

Rule 18. Rules of Procedure and Evidence, Restatements, and Uniform Acts

Rule 19. Administrative Rules and Regulations

Rule 20. Federal Taxation Materials

Rule 21. Legislative Materials

Rule 22. Short Form Citation of Legislative and Administrative Materials

Rule 23. Sources and Authorities: Constitutions

Court & Litigation Documents

Rule 24. Citing Court or Litigation Documents from Your Case

Rule 25. Citing Court or Litigation Documents from Another Case

Rule 26. Short Form Citation for Court Documents

Rule 27. Capitalization Within the Text of Court Documents and Legal Memoranda

Books & Non-Periodicals

Rule 28. Full Citation for Books & Non-Periodicals

Rule 29. Short Form Citation for Books & Non-Periodicals

Journals, Magazines, & Newspaper Articles

Rule 30. Full Citation for Journals, Magazines & Newspaper Articles

Rule 31. Short Form Citation for Journals, Magazines & Newspaper Articles

Internet Sources

Rule 32. General Principles for Internet Sources

Rule 33. Basic Formula for Internet Sources

Rule 34. Short Form Citations for Internet Sources

Explanatory Parentheticals

Rule 35. General Principles for Explanatory Parentheticals

Rule 36. Order of parentheticals

Quotations

Rule 37. General Principles for Quotations

Rule 38. Alterations of Quotations

Rule 39. Omissions in Quotations

Rule 40. Special Rules for Block Quotations

Tables

Table 1. Federal Judicial and Legislative Materials

Table 2. Federal Administrative and Legislative Materials

Table 3. U.S. States and Other Jurisdictions

Table 4. Required Abbreviations for Services

Table 5. Required Abbreviations for Legislative Documents

Table 6. Required Abbreviations for Treaty Sources

Table 7. Required Abbreviations for Arbitral Reporters

Table 8. Required Abbreviations for Intergovernmental Organizations

Table 9. Required Abbreviations for Court Names

Table 10. Required Abbreviations for Titles of Judges and Officials

Table 11. Required Abbreviations for Case Names In Citations

Table 12. Required Abbreviations for Geographical Terms

Table 13. Required Abbreviations for Document Subdivisions

Table 14. Required Abbreviations for Explanatory Phrases

Table 15. Required Abbreviations for Institutions

Table 16. Required Abbreviations for Publishing Terms

Table 17. Required Abbreviations for Month Names

Table 18. Required Abbreviations for Common Words Used In Periodical Names

Table 19. Table of Citation Guides

Table 20. Tables of Correspondence

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

R28. Full Citation for Books & Non-Periodicals

A full citation to a book or other non-periodical is made up of the following elements:

1. Volume number (if there is more than one volume).
2. Names of the authors, as listed on the publication.
   • For two authors, list in the same order and use an “&.”
   • For more than two authors, use an “et al.” after the first name and stop there. (If you’re bored, feel free to list out all the authors with an “&” before the last.)
   • Use titles that follow an author’s name (Sr.) but not titles that precede them (Hon.)
3. Italicized title of the publication, capitalized as necessary.
   • For law review articles, use small caps for both the title and author, and do not italicize the title.
4. The exact page number you are referring to. If you are citing a work organized using sections or paragraphs, use those instead, adding a page number only if helpful.
5. Year of publication, name of editor or translator (if applicable), edition (if more than one), all in parentheses.
   • If listing an editor or a translator, then follow the name with ed., or trans., respectively. Include that comma before the year of publication.
   • Cite the most recent edition, unless you have a really good (read: substantive) reason for citing older.

Examples:

• Marc A. Franklin et al., Mass Media Law Cases and Materials 472 (8th ed. 2011).
• 1 Melville B. Nimmer & David Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright § 1.01[B][1][a] at 1–14–15 (2011).
• Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gregory Rabassa trans., Harper & Row 2003) (1967).
• Roger Angell, This Old Man, in The Best American Essays 2015 (Ariel Levy & Robert Atwan eds.,2015).

R29. Short Form Citation for Books & Non-Periodicals

R29.1. Id.

References to books or non-periodical material cited in the immediately preceding citation (when that citation contains only one source) should be followed by “id.”

• Update the page number you’re referring to within that source, as needed.
• Do not use for internal cross references, or for citing back to a body of collected works when you are really supposed to be citing a single work from that body.

R29.2. supra

Can be used instead of “id.” Supra should include:

• last name of the author
• italicize “supra”, but not the comma that follows
• update the specific page you’re referring to

Examples: