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Citation Basics: Legal Citation Help

How to cite sources with styles of documentation used at CCBC.

Books

Sources for Citation Help

Legal citations help the reader of a particular document find a document mentioned through a standard format and set of abbreviations. It is important to use the standard methods of citation, especially when submitting a filing to a court of law.

Here is a legal citation book online:

Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (2020)   

Citing the CFR and the FR

Proper citation format of the Code of Federal Regulations includes the year.

40 C.F.R. §470.5(a) (2010).

Proper citation format of the Federal Register includes the date it was published.

85 Fed. Reg. 47245 (June 11, 2021).

For more information see Chapter 19 of the ALWD.