Sentences with phrase «other citation guides»

Not exact matches

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.

This will be done because this is how it has always been done, and despite the fact that 99 % of a student's (and a practising lawyer's) legal citation needs are more than adequately addressed by online, open - access guides prepared by law libraries at the University of British Columbia, University of Calgary, Queen's University and others.

These online research guides are provided by the University of Calgary and include: University of Calgary Law Library Research Guides; Other Canadian Research Guides; Non-Canadian Legal Research Guides; Internet Research Guides; Abbreviations; and Legal Citation guides.

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.

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.

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 icitation 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 iCitation 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 iCitation (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 icitation systems, offering a system of citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive icitation 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.

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.

Now in its 8th edition, the Guide provides a straightforward, uniform approach to citation of government documents, case law, legislation, periodicals, monographs and other secondary materials across all jurisdictions.

Podcasts are like any other internet site according to the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, 7th edition.