The abbreviation of the legal series usually appears as a number, followed by the short name of the series and ends with another number. A legal citation is a reference to a legal document such as case law, law, law review article, etc. However, if the law is spread over different sections of the Code or does not appear at all, provide the public law number in addition to information about the source where you accessed the law, for example: Most legal citations consist of the name of the document (case law, law, article of summary of the law), abbreviation of legal series and date. No, specifying a URL is optional in APA-style reference entries for law sources (e.g., lawsuits, laws). It may be useful to do this to help the reader retrieve the source, but it is not necessary because the other information contained should be enough to find it. You don`t need to create a citation for entire federal or state constitutions. It is enough to refer to them by their name in the text. When citing specific articles and edits, create reference list entries and citations in the text as usual. The United States Constitution should be included in the reference lists and brackets of the U.S. Const.
be abbreviated. Use legal abbreviations for state constitutions, such as In. Const. for the Indiana Constitution. In the story, spell these place names: United States, United States, Indiana. Follow the Constitution numbering pattern (Roman for articles and amendments of the United States Constitution and for articles of the State Constitution, but Arabic for state amendments). Quotations in parentheses and narrative citations in the text are formatted like any other source (first item in the reference list entry, year), although unlike other sources, court decisions and cases use italics for the title in the citation in the text. For example (Brown v. Board of Education, 1954). When an act is codified in different non-consecutive sections of the Code, it is also cited using the public law number and information on its position in all laws.
Most legal documents are cited in the Bluebook style, the style of legal citation common to all disciplines (see Bluebook style in The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 2015). The APA departs from the bluebook style for legal documents and uses these templates and templates in bibliographies. This resource lists some of the common legal references that ABS users need to do their jobs, but is not exhaustive. Please note that legal conventions outside the United States may differ. Below are links to online guides and information on how to access the Bluebook. Other legislative documents such as witness statements, hearings, non-legal bills and related documents may also be cited. Your reference list templates (below) may include a URL if available, but the URL is optional. The quotations in the text follow the same patterns as court decisions and cases.
The citations in the text are formatted in the same way as the above court decisions (name of the act, year). The years can be confusing because laws are often passed in a different year than the one they are published; You should always use the year of publication of the law in the compilation you are considering. You should check the Blue Book for state laws, as some states use chapter or article numbers instead of sections. Similarly, the Blue Book contains all the necessary abbreviations and symbols. Some federal laws may include public numbers that you can use in the reference list entry instead of USC publication information. An uncodified law (published in the United States Code) must be cited using its public law number and information about where it was published. Each state`s laws and statutes are cited in a format similar to federal laws whenever possible. “U.S.C.” is replaced by an abbreviation for the code of that state, and the headings and sections are presented in the same manner. However, some state codes use item or chapter numbers instead of or in addition to section numbers, or do not use titles. Patents are cited more as traditional sources of APA. FR stands for Federal Register.
Other elements follow the model of the codified federal regulatory model explained above. The above bill is for the Senate and can be amended for the House of Representatives by replacing S. with H.R. at the beginning. Res.### represents the resolution number, written Res. 111, and Volume # represents the volume of the Congressional Record, written 122 (“volume” is omitted). Again, S. and H.R. are for the Senate and House of Representatives and should be used according to the source of the report.
Replace ###-### with the report number. The most commonly used style manual for citing legal documents is the Bluebook: A Unified Citation System. The APA, PLA, and Chicago Manual of Style all refer to the Bluebook to cite specific documents such as cases. The year included is the year in which the law was published in the source consulted, not the year in which it was adopted, amended or supplemented. ## Here are the article and paragraph numbers. The paragraph element can be omitted if you quote the entire article. In general, you should identify a law in an APA reference entry by its position in the United States Code (U.S.C.). CFR stands for Code of Federal Regulations. “Volume #” must be replaced by the number and ### represents the section number. the publication date of the compilation with which you found the statutes, in parentheses For example: Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S.
393 (2007) is a citation from a Supreme Court case found in volume 551 of the United States Reports (U.S.) beginning at page 393.