Major legal
citation guides in the UK (OSCOLA, s. 1.3.1) and Australia (AGLC, s. 1.6.1) clearly forbid the use of «full stops» in abbreviations and initials found in citations.
Not exact matches
Driscoll has recently faced scrutiny for
citation errors
in a study
guide.
Out of 66 separate
citations in Vedam's
Guide, only 3 show that homebirth is as safe as hospital birth, 2 from Canada and 1 from the Netherlands.
If you'd like to check out the research on this, you'll find a long list of
citations in my post 10 Ways To
Guide Children Without Punishment.
It does not matter if you require your assignment to be referenced
in MLA, APA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, Turabian or Oxford
citation styles, our excellent writers will
guide you.
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.
The efforts now are directed to making the use of these consistent, irrespective of local
citation guides, which are usually national
in their focus.
As Metzler notes, the
guide «takes a strong position against confining all
citations to footnotes, a position against confining all
citations to footnotes, a position surely destined to become a major source
in the ongoing debate on this subject.»
The
guide goes on to provide these reasons for its rejection of the «all -
citations -
in - footnotes style»:
In support of its position, the guide notes six of the seven California justices who adopted the all - citations - in - footnotes style several years ago «have now abandoned it because of the «bobblehead doll» syndrome and quotability problems noted above.&raqu
In support of its position, the
guide notes six of the seven California justices who adopted the all -
citations -
in - footnotes style several years ago «have now abandoned it because of the «bobblehead doll» syndrome and quotability problems noted above.&raqu
in - footnotes style several years ago «have now abandoned it because of the «bobblehead doll» syndrome and quotability problems noted above.»
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.»
I stumbled across part of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition website, where I found a good swathe of the 6th edition of the Canadian
Guide to Uniform Legal
Citation available online
in PDF.
In addition to covering opinion writing, the
Guide has helpful reviews of legal research, writing, and
citation pertinent to writing opinions complete with useful charts and a sample generic research plan.
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.
of the Canadian
Guide to Uniform Legal
Citation and I must say that
in my experience with the 7th ed., it is far closer to the 7th circle of hell than the 7th sphere of heaven.
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.
In his Foreword to the McGill
Guide John I Laskin makes this point clearly and unequivocally when he states that the first function served by a case
citation is to
The law reports classified by The
Guide to Legal
Citation as semi-official law reporters are
in reality commercial publications prepared by legal publishers
in the exactly the same manner as any other law report.
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?
As well as trivializing the online case
citation, the McGill
Guide compounds the problem by directing that
in citing cases, one must follow a «hierarchy of sources»
in which the least useful and least accessible
citations appear first.
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 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.
The eighth edition of the Canadian
Guide to Uniform Legal
Citation («McGill
Guide») was published
in May.
There have been 18 editions of the
citation guide since publication of the first
in 1926.
With the new fall term just beginning, and thousands of first - year law students across the country entering upon legal studies; and with the student editors of the McGill Law Journal preparing yet another new edition of the Canadian
Guide to Uniform Legal
Citation (incredibly, the 8th since its first appearance
in 1986), I thought it an... [more]
Early
in my career, when I was a freshly hatched legal editor, I pored over the Canadian
Guide to Uniform Legal
Citation (the McGill
Guide).
Answer — When it appears
in the McGill Law Journal's Canadian
Guide to Uniform Legal
Citation (the «McGill
Guide»)
Second, and
in any case, the
Guide appears to indicate that «(QL)» should appear at the end of any such
citation.
Why should our
citations be stuck
in the»80s or»90s with a presumption that we intend to refer to the most recent edition (McGill
Guide, section 2.1.11)?
A
guiding principle of
citation is not to duplicate information
in a
citation.
Citations in predominantly legal works generally follow one of two
guides: (1) The Bluebook: A Uniform System of
Citation...; or (2) the ALWD
Citation Manual: A Professional System of
Citation....
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.
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.
As Fastcase's own announcement says, «Because it reports what cases say
in citations, researchers should rely on Bad Law Bot as an aid to identifying negative history, not as a comprehensive
guide.»
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?
With the new fall term just beginning, and thousands of first - year law students across the country entering upon legal studies; and with the student editors of the McGill Law Journal preparing yet another new edition of the Canadian
Guide to Uniform Legal
Citation (incredibly, the 8th since its first appearance in 1986), I thought it an opportune moment to add my thoughts on the practice of legal citation and how we — and specifically the editors of the McGill Guide — would do well to reconsider both the ends and the means of legal citation as currently pr
Citation (incredibly, the 8th since its first appearance
in 1986), I thought it an opportune moment to add my thoughts on the practice of legal
citation and how we — and specifically the editors of the McGill Guide — would do well to reconsider both the ends and the means of legal citation as currently pr
citation and how we — and specifically the editors of the McGill
Guide — would do well to reconsider both the ends and the means of legal
citation as currently pr
citation as currently practised.
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.
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Colleague Katharine Thompson has provided me a list of some of the changes she noticed
in the new, just received 7th edition of the McGill
Guide, known more formally as the Canadian
Guide to Uniform Legal
Citation, edited by editors of the McGill Law Journal and published by Carswell.
In the case of the neutral
citation, the argument has been persuasively made that the
Guide was right to look to the future when it advocated the use of the neutral
citation well before its time.
Gary wonders whether the very prominent place given to the neutral
citation in the McGill
Guide is justified.
A major step forward would see the McGill
Guide including
in the Appendix a comprehensive list of the specific databases available from recognized providers of legal information
in the same way
in which the
Guide includes comprehensive lists of print law reports and journals with their
citations.
The fact that a
citation is unwieldy, inelegant, or not easily available
in one part of the country or another should not influence the decision to include or exclude the
citation in a
guide to legal
citation.
Here
in Alberta, on November 12, 2013 there was a Notice to the Profession from the Court of Queen's Bench adopting the 7th edition of the Canadian
Guide to Uniform Legal
Citation (Toronto: Carswell, 2010).
The Practical
Guide omits dealing with
citation of Canadian cases altogether, except for the
citations in the sample research memorandum
in the book.
Like the ALWD
Guide to Legal
Citation, first published in 2000, it endeavors to instruct those who would write legal briefs or memoranda on how to cite U.S. legal materials in complete conformity with the system of citation codified in the most recent edition of The Bluebook while avoiding infringement of that work's co
Citation, first published
in 2000, it endeavors to instruct those who would write legal briefs or memoranda on how to cite U.S. legal materials
in complete conformity with the system of
citation codified in the most recent edition of The Bluebook while avoiding infringement of that work's co
citation codified
in the most recent edition of The Bluebook while avoiding infringement of that work's copyright.