ALWD guide to legal citation / Association of Legal Writing Directors and Coleen M. Barger, Ben J. Altheimer Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Arkansas Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law.
Indicating omissions from quotations. Abbreviations -- Spelling and capitalization -- Numbers in general -- Page numbers -- Sections and paragraphs -- Footnotes and endnotes -- Supplements -- Graphical material, appendices, and other subdivisions -- Internal cross-references -- Full and short citation formats -- Cases -- Constitutions -- Statutory codes and session laws -- Legislation and other legislative materials -- Court rules, judicial administrative orders, ethics opinions, and jury instructions -- Ordinances -- Administrative and executive materials -- Treaties and international conventions and agreements -- Books, treatises, and other nonperiodic materials -- Law reviews and other periodicals -- Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and American law reports -- Restatements, principles of the law, model codes, uniform laws, and sentencing guidelines -- Looseleaf services -- Court documents, transcripts, and appellate records -- Speeches, addresses, and other oral presentations -- Interviews, letters, and memoranda -- Video and visual programs, radio, audio recordings, and microforms -- Forthcoming works, unpublished manuscripts, and working papers -- Online sources in general -- World wide web sites and blogs -- Commercial databases -- Email, listservs, CD-ROMs, and other electronic media -- Citation placement and use -- Signals -- Order of cited authorities -- Explanatory parentheticals, commentary, and treatment -- Quotations -- Altering quotations -- Indicating omissions from quotations.
Summary:
"[This book] provides the tools needed for all forms of legal writing, using [explanations and illustrations]. In a single set of rules that the novice and experienced legal writers can...consult, [the author] contrasts the formats used in practice-based documents with those used in academic footnotes. New to the sixth edition: updated and expanded coverage of public domain case opinions and other primary authorities published online; updated and expanded coverage of secondary works in online media, including articles, ebooks, blogs, newsletters, and social media; new and updated subsections of rules addressing federal case reporters, statutes, legislation, and regulations online; new treatment of footnote references and footnotes/endnotes in online sources; new treatment and examples of dictionaries, A.L.R. annotations and articles, restatements, and principles of the law; updated appendices containing abbreviations, jurisdiction-specific sources and local rules, periodicals (more than 70 new titles added); new appendix addressing abbreviations for titles of BD Loose-leaf services; and every rule and example has been revisited and edited for depth and breadth of coverage as well as improved clarity; and shorter than the Fifth Edition (but with the same amount of information)."-- Back cover.
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