The generally accepted
legal citation format in the U.S. is the Bluebook.
I've put the Hanke citation below the citing case and between curly braces because, thank God,
no legal citation format uses curly braces:
Although this post doesn't use traditional full
legal citation format, it does use traditional formatting for quotations, with brackets indicating omitted letters in a quote from case law.
We propose
a legal citation format that works in a similar fashion, but instead of being contained in the venerable HREF parameter, we propose a second and optional parameter for the A tag, called LREF for Legal Reference.
Zotero comes with a variety of bibliographic and citation styles built in (though not, I think, the Canadian
legal citation format).
The following is a simple proposal for
legal citation formatting that aims to make maximum use of the ample tools that the past several decades have already brought us.
This can make locating cited material difficult for those who are unfamiliar with
legal citation formats.
Not exact matches
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Not only are the software packages not able to address the nuances of
legal materials, but there are types of
legal materials, such as looseleafs, which were not considered by the developers of the standards for data
format and
citation type.
There are multiple possible starting points to resolve this issue, including rationalizing
legal citation style, improving output
formats and functionality for
legal research tools, and exploring options for software development.
By automating
citation management and
formatting, these software packages save considerable time in research and composition, but there are many issues surrounding their adoption by the
legal community.
in scanned PDF
format, all freely available on AustLII, but also in developing a uniform and vendor - neutral system of
legal citation for them.
With the removal of the word «
legal», this could be the definition of the
citation system for any academic discipline: the MLA style for the humanities (MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed, Modern Language Association, 2009), the APA style for the social sciences (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed, 2010), or the CSE style for science writers (Scientific Style and
Format: The CSE Manual for Writers, Editors and Publishers, 7th ed, Council of Science Editors, 2006).
The APA Publication Manual, 6th edition states» References to
legal materials... which include court decisions, statutes, other legislative materials, and various secondary sources, are more useful to the reader if they provide the information in the conventional
format of
legal citations.»
Clients may not see the value of
legal industry requirements such as properly
formatting legal citations and creating tables of authorities, but you've still got to do them, and you've got to do them right.
It discusses the interrelated issues of link rot and the impermanence of web pages,
citation format, authentication and preservation of online electronic
legal information.
For The Bluebook is not merely manifest in the
format of the
citations it enables journal editors,
legal academics, lawyers, and
legal assistants to produce.
Here are some examples of the work that specialized virtual
legal assistants and virtual paralegals may handle: transcription of dictation or handwritten notes; initial draft transcriptions of pleadings, motions, letters, blog posts, stipulations and interviews; revisions to the foregoing; case and deadline management; document review and organization; pleading preparation, review local court rules, electronic court filings, electronic and mail service of document copies; assistance with
legal briefs (
citation review, editing, table of authorities, table of contents, binding, printing and / or digital
formats); coordination of service of process; billing assistance; internet research and investigation; document production, bates numbering and other discovery tasks; and preparation of hearing notebooks.
In a guest post this week on Justia's Verdict blog, I explain how one can use
citation format to determine a
legal information service's data source for case law and report on the results of such an investigation.