TOPICAL INDEX
This index contains links to the many topics covered in this introduction to legal citation. It can be used like a print index. Its entries are alphabetically arrayed with linked cross references. To find and then scroll through the entries beginning with a particular letter, click on the letter or range of letters you want.
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(see also Citation
principles, compaction principles and Purposes
of citation)
court of decision
journals, most often cited
months
party names
periods in
prior history phrases
reporter names
spacing
state names
subsequent history phrases
"Accord"
(see also Signals)
Administrative Agencies
adjudications
reports
regulations
ALWD Citation Manual cross reference table
American Law Reports (A.L.R.)
Attorney general opinions (see Advisory opinions)
Author's name
(see also Book
citations and Journals)
books, individual authors
books, multiple authors
journal articles
Bluebook rules cross reference table
(see also Parenthetical
references, books)
by institutional authors
examples
in general
services
short forms
Book reviews (see Journals)
Briefs
citation form in briefs
citations to
"But cf."
(see also Signals)
"But see"
(see also Signals)
(see also Dates, Ordinal
numbers, Party names, Reporters,
Signals and State decisions)
address or ID
conditional items in case citations
dictum
dissenting opinion
electronically reported
examples
federal decisions
in general
in-state citation
initials in party names
looseleaf services
media-neutral citation
omissions in party names
order of citation
out-of-state citation
parallel citation
parenthetical references
parties' names (see also
Abbreviations)
plurality opinion
prior history, explanatory phrases
procedural phrases in case names
recent decisions
sentences, citation in
short forms
slip opinions
state decisions
subsequent history, explanatory phrases
unreported decisions
Case documents (see Documents)
"Cf."
(see also Signals)
Citation
learning
levels of mastery
media-neutral
purposes
types of principles
address principles
compaction principles
content principles
format principles
generally
Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.)
Codes (see Statute citations)
(see also Signals)
Constitution citations
examples
in general
punctuation in citations to
short forms
"Contra"
(see also Signals)
Court of decision
Court documents (see Documents)
Court of Claims Reports (Ct. Cl.)
Courts
federal
citation examples
parenthetical reference to
state citation examples
in case
citations
month abbreviations
year of decision
Decisions (see Case citations)
Docket number
Documents
(see also Parenthetical
references, documents)
citation to case documents
"E.g."
(see also Signals)
"Et al."
in book
citations
in journal citations
Federal regulations (see Regulation citations)
Federal Reporter, examples of citation
Federal reporters, abbreviations
Federal Rules Decisions, examples of citation
Federal statutes
(see also Statute citations)
Federal Supplement, examples of citation
in party names
in book author names
in journal author names
Institutional services (see Services)
International agreements (see Treaties)
abbreviations, most
often cited
article citations
book reviews
citation forms, in general
examples
short form citation
student writings
symposia
title spacing
Law journals (see Journals)
Law reviews (see Journals)
Lawyer's Edition, examples of citation
Location phrases, in party names
Looseleaf services
Military Justice Reporter, examples of citation
Municipal ordinances (see Local Ordinances)
Names
abbreviations in party
names
given names, in cases, articles, and books, (see Initials)
omissions in party names
Numbers (see Ordinal numbers)
(see also Signals)
Ordinances (see Local Ordinances)
Parallel citation
agency
material
cases
electronic sources
arbitration citations
books
court of decision
date of decision
dictum or dissenting opinion
documents
in quotations
journal articles
regulations
services
session laws
statutes
with signals
abbreviations
in general
omissions in
states in party names
Prior history
Procedural phrases, in case names
Publisher services (see Services)
Publisher's name
in book
citations
state code citations
unofficial code citations
(see also Citation principles and Format principles)
Records (see Documents)
Redundancy (see Citation principles, compaction principles)
(see also Parenthetical
references, regulations)
Code
of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.)
examples
Federal
Register
federal regulations
short form citation
state regulations
uncodified regulations
(see also Case citations,
address or ID)
federal abbreviations
looseleaf services
state and D.C. abbreviations
Reports of the United States Tax Court, examples of citation
"See"
(see also Signals)
"See also"
(see also Signals)
(see also Signals)
(see also Parenthetical references, session laws)
"accord"
"but cf."
"but see"
"cf."
"compare...with"
"contra"
"e.g."
generally
multiple signals
order of signals and citations
preceding signal, none
"see"
"see also"
"see
generally"
administrative
rulings
cases, examples of citation
(see also Statute citations)
(see also Parenthetical
references, statutes)
bills
division identification in
state codes
federal statutes
Internal Revenue Code
named statutes
official versus unofficial
codifications
pocket parts
session laws
short form citation
state statutes
supplements
uniform acts
Student work, in journal citations
Subsequent actions, omitted in case names
Subsequent history
(see also Citation
principles, content principles)
explanatory phrases
Supreme Court Reporter, examples of citation
Treaties and other international agreements
Treatises (see Book citations)
"United States," in case names
United States Claims Court Reporter, examples of citation
United States Reports, examples of citation
Unreported or unpublished cases
Volume Numbers
Year
of decision
of regulatory compilation
of statutory compilation