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Legal Citation Basics Most legal citations consist of the name of the document (case, statute, law review article), an abbreviation for the legal series, and the date. The abbreviation for the legal series usually appears as a number followed by the abbreviated name of the series and ends in another number.

Use Id. if you are citing the same page of the same case that you cited in the immediately preceding citation. Use Id. at (pinpoint page) if you are citing a different page of the same case that you cited in the immediately preceding citation.

An annotation is a brief summary, often in condensed form, of the law deduced from cases and statutes. Annotations point to other, related material on the same point of law. Annotated statutes or codes include brief summaries of cases that reference the statute.

Further references to the same source The first time you cite a source, full details should be given. Subsequent references to the same source can then be abbreviated by briefly identifying the source and providing a cross-reference in brackets to the footnote that contains the full citation.

Bluepages Rule B17 covers how to cite to the record, and the abbreviations that are used in citing to the record are listed in Bluepages Table BT1 (e.g., brief = br.) The key elements of a citation to the record are as follows: Name of the document (abbreviated ing to BT1)

References to the record and other case documents in a brief or memorandum are placed in parentheses. The document's name is not italicized or underlined, but initial letters are capitalized. Standard abbreviations (§ 4-900) exist for many of the document types.