Hi Simon: subject to the issue of having absolutely zero time to develop some sort of online Canadian legal
citation guide for free, I remain game.
Use these examples only as guides; when listed, consult
the citation guide for the country.
The Legal Sourcery Blog reported recently that the three Saskatchewan Courts now have a practice directive in place that requires the use of
the Citation Guide for the Courts of Saskatchewan.
Not exact matches
Driscoll has recently faced scrutiny
for citation errors in a study
guide.
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Within our classroom website is the content we study as well as additional resources
for research, an APA formatted essay template, a
citation guide, project ideas, learning objects, tutorials, video lessons, and a variety of downloadables.
For those never - ending questions about the conventions of punctuation, italics / quotes, plurals / possessives,
citations, and so on, every writer needs something like the cheap, unassuming, and well indexed Merriam - Webster's
Guide to Punctuation and Style.
Perhaps, the most interesting thing about USEssayWriters.com is that it's 100 % legal to purchase essay papers from us, because you can use the essays as a source of ideas
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The best
citation guide on the internet
for those who want to avoid many stupid mistakes familial to all students.
Use the assigned style
guide for keeping track of your references and
citations.
See our
guide on how to handle a
citation for help with such matters.
In these circumstances, a
guiding source
for my admittedly very limited research was Irving Sandler's classic, The Triumph of American Panting (1970), along with all
citations I could trace from the book.
According to Climate Depot, the» talking points memo -LSB-...] is a complete skeptics»
guide for elected officials, media and the public on how to discuss global warming backed up by dozens of
citations to peer - reviewed research.»
The
guide goes on to provide these reasons
for its rejection of the «all -
citations - in - footnotes style»:
The primary purpose of a style
guide for legal
citation is to ensure that everyone can understand how various combinations of numbers, letters, brackets and punctuation make it possible
for the reader to find the full text of a case referred to in a book, article or another case.
The Supreme Court's
guide notes the Bluebook «provides a useful reference
for rules governing
citations of types of materials not covered in this Style Manual,» but «caution [s] that this Style Manual frequently deviates from Bluebook style.»
Just as the current edition took a major step forward by elimination of the heretofore sacrosanct, but totally useless period, in legal
citation, the editors of the
Guide to Canadian Legal Research are able to introduce reality into the practice of citing court decisions by a few simple changes to the recommended Hierarchy of Sources
for case law.
The time is approaching
for work to begin on the new edition of the Canadian
Guide to Legal
Citation.
As the original Carswell publisher
for the
Guide, I am quite proud of its role in educating the legal profession in correct forms of
citation.
The McGill is the Canadian
Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, but lately I have been wondering if there might be room for another guide to legal citation in Ca
Guide to Uniform Legal
Citation, but lately I have been wondering if there might be room for another guide to legal citation in
Citation, but lately I have been wondering if there might be room
for another
guide to legal citation in Ca
guide to legal
citation in
citation in Canada?
My own preferred solution would be
for interested parties to maintain a standard
citation guide online in a wiki format, where issues in uniform
citation can be openly and intensively discussed.
The McGill
Guide tells users to «include the URL of the home page of the journal at the end of the
citation» rather than the full URL
for the article; this contrasts with the instructions in section 1.6 to include entire URLs.
The purpose of this
Guide is to provide a standard set of
citation rules
for the courts of Saskatchewan.
Why would Carswell / Thomson / McGill want to make the McGill
guide free when the BCCA has recently mandated that the 7th ed will be the standard
for citation of legal material?
Perhaps it would be similar to the current
citation style
for the Revised Statutes of Quebec (McGill
Guide, section 2.1.5).
On reflection, I may have been a bit over-enthusiastic in adopting the
Guide; at that time, it prescribed the convention of using italics
for the name of the parties in a case
citation, but not using italics
for the v. I'm not sure why I adopted this convention.
Given that The Blue Book is edited by law students, and law students being... well, law students, it should come as no surprise to learn that «the definitive style
guide for legal
citation» is sprinkled with inside jokes.
I have spent the last few years trying to train students to use the McGill
guide and now this practice direction seems to have ignored the movement towards neutral
citations for all decisions.
The McGill
Guide causes me to confront my own internal confluct between a desire
for precision, uniformity and a sense of superiority borne of my supposed knowledge of
citation rules and the reality that, given all other complexities of legal practice, keeping up with the ever - changing and sometimes unexpected rules can seem like an unnecessary burden.
Inspired by the Bluebook published by the Harvard Law Review Association, the
Guide is intended be the definitive style guide for legal citation in Ca
Guide is intended be the definitive style
guide for legal citation in Ca
guide for legal
citation in Canada.
While
citation styles in other disciplines have moved increasingly towards greater simplicity and clarity, concentrating on malleable concepts and abandoning the use of arcane bibliographic terms and obscure abbreviations, all legal
citation guides continue to share and suffer from the same conceptual error: namely, that there should be a rule
for every possible source to which a legal professional might refer and, better yet, an abbreviation
for every source in which the reference might be found.
Of the legal
citation guides out there, OSCOLA is my favourite
for the reasons you describe — and, of course, because of its Creative Commons licence.
Why is it, then, that
citation systems for law — whether the Harvard Bluebook, the Chicago Maroon Book, the Canadian McGill Guide, the British OSCOLA: Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities or the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC)-- are so idiosyncratic and radically different from these other citation systems, offering a system of citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive i
citation systems
for law — whether the Harvard Bluebook, the Chicago Maroon Book, the Canadian McGill
Guide, the British OSCOLA: Oxford University Standard
for Citation of Legal Authorities or the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC)-- are so idiosyncratic and radically different from these other citation systems, offering a system of citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive i
Citation of Legal Authorities or the Australian
Guide to Legal
Citation (AGLC)-- are so idiosyncratic and radically different from these other citation systems, offering a system of citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive i
Citation (AGLC)-- are so idiosyncratic and radically different from these other
citation systems, offering a system of citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive i
citation systems, offering a system of
citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive i
citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive in scope?
While MLA and the other style
guides have eliminated the programmatic use of abbreviations in bibliographic references (no more op cit or ibid) and in the
citation of periodical sources, the students responsible
for refining legal
citation practice continue to develop ever more incomprehensible abbreviations
for increasingly obscure purposes and sources.
The review does not mention that there is only a draft version of a
citation style for the Blue Book, and nothing in the works to make Zotero work with our own inimitable Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal C
citation style
for the Blue Book, and nothing in the works to make Zotero work with our own inimitable Canadian
Guide to Uniform Legal
CitationCitation.
For a more detailed explanation of legal
citation, see the Douglas College Library Legal Citation Onli
citation, see the Douglas College Library Legal
Citation Onli
Citation Online
Guide
An excellent gateway to
guides for citation of electronic materials is maintained by the International Federation of Library Associations at the following address: http://www.ifla.org/I/training/
citation/citing.htm Some
guides listed include:
The remaining parts could be handled through the use of consistent formats like McGill
Guide for citations (which would enable proper parsing).
For example, to see McGill
Guide citation noted as a «wish we'd / they'd / I'd learned» skill after first - year LRW surprised me.
One of the more frequently asked questions I would receive when I was at the Faculty of Law at U of Toronto was: «Is there an online version of the McGill
Guide (the Canadian guide for legal citat
Guide (the Canadian
guide for legal citat
guide for legal
citation)?
Other useful
guides are the Canadian Judicial Council's Practice Direction on the Use of Neutral
Citation for Case Law (2008) and Legal Research Materials: Legal
Citation prepared by the William R. Lederman Law Library at Queen's University.
The Practical
Guide omits dealing with
citation of Canadian cases altogether, except
for the
citations in the sample research memorandum in the book.
The first part contains the Bluepages, a how - to
guide for basic legal
citation.
The NFIB Small Business Legal Center and Arent Fox, PLLC, have teamed together to create a
guide that helps small business prepare
for OSHA inspections and avoid
citations.
This
guide will help your business prepare
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citations.
We've talked at Slaw about the need
for a free online Canadian uniform
citation guide — indeed, even offered the services of our members to the McGill Guide folks, who declined our
guide — indeed, even offered the services of our members to the McGill
Guide folks, who declined our
Guide folks, who declined our help.
At least
for student and desktop reference purposes, it should be replaced with a new, shorter
guide, one that is first a
guide to legal
citation practice, not a compendium of arcane and international legal resources or a style
guide manqué.
The editors of the
Guide at the McGill Law Journal are asking
for reader input about any changes to make the famous legal
citation bible more user friendly.
Let it be a
guide that is truly uniform, a standard
for legal
citation practice in publishing, in the courts, in practice and in the academy.
So long as a competing work (the ALWD
Guide to Legal
Citation or Introduction to Basic Legal
Citation,
for that matter) avoids employing the specific means used by The Bluebook to explain how to cite (e.g., its words, phrases, selected examples) that work can instruct readers on how to produce
citations identical to those generated by careful use of The Bluebook.