Paiz, J., Angeli, E., Wagner, J., Lawrick, E., Moore, K., Anderson, M.,. Keck, R. (2010, May 5). General format. Retrieved by owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ Myers, M., Paiz, J., Angeli, E., Wagner, J., Lawrick, E., Moore, K., Anderson, M.,. Keck, R. (2019, December 20). General format. Purdue Online Writing Lab.

owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html The Bluebook Style Guide is used in the American legal profession to cite all relevant sources. In addition, the Chicago Manual of Style recommends its use for all citations of legal documents. The following is a summary of the basics. It`s worth noting that the Bluebook system is considerably complex in most of these points, but here`s the level of detail it recommends for a student`s basic needs, for example. If you write for legal journals or other legal publications, these sources usually do not need to be cited in a bibliography or on a reference page. Quotation sentences alone are an acceptable form of quotation as long as the document contains few legal citations (for more information, see The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, sections 14.269-305 and 15.58). The APA follows the guidelines for legal citations in the United States, as described in The Bluebook®. You can access a version of the Bluebook by clicking here. Guidelines for references to legal documents can also be found on pages 355-368 of the 7th edition of the APA Publication Manual. 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 Constitution of the United States should be included in the reference lists and parentheses of the United States. Use legal state abbreviations for state constitutions, such as In. Const. for the Indiana Constitution. In the story, write these place names: USA, USA, 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).

Notes and bibliographic entries for public records, like other documents, must contain the elements necessary to locate the items. These essential elements often include the following: Other legislative documents such as witness statements, hearings, bills that do not have the force of law 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. Purdue Online Writing Lab. (n.d.). General FAQs about writing. Purdue Online Writing Lab.

owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/general_writing_faqs.html Legal and other government documents should be cited with footnotes, endnotes and/or citations (with clauses containing the same information required in a footnote). Printed copies of sources are generally preferred to digital copies, although verified digital sources are acceptable. For more information about citing legal sources in your reference list, see the Westfield State College page to cite APA-style legal documents. 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. Note: If a film or videotape is not widely distributed, add the following to your citation by country of origin: (Available under reseller name, full address, and postal code). In other words, you should always include the year in a quote in parentheses, such as (Jones, 2020). If you quote a work several times in the same paragraph of the story, you can omit the year. For example: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. (1997).

Goat. In Merriam Webster`s collegiate dictionary (10th edition, pp. 499-500). Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. You can use the quote that best matches the type of artifact. However, if the artifact is not accessible to readers, it may not be necessary to cite it. U.S. federal court decisions are published in different journalists and therefore have different reference list templates. They are as follows: 1. First Name Last name, “Document title” (source type identifier, place of publication, year of publication), page number(s).

This section provides information about how to format and cite Chicago Manual of Style documents. These resources follow the seventeenth edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, published in 2017. Please also note: While this resource contains many examples of unusual print source citations that we find useful, it may not consider all possibilities. For more examples of citing unusual print sources, see the 7th edition of the APA Publication Guide. Note: And seq is a Latin abbreviation indicating that the section number is the first in a series of a few articles codifying this law. Name, F. M., & Surname, F. M.

(Ed.). (year). Title of the proceeding. Editor. URL (if applicable) Producer, P.P. (Producer) & Director, D.D. (Director). (Date of publication). Title of the film [Film]. Country of origin: Studio or distributor. Your first choice is to follow the online slide format on this Purdue OWL page and use the course management system login page where slides are stored as URLs.

You would refer to this source in the text, as you normally would with the last name and date of the author. For lecture notes, instead of the title, you would write something like [Lecture Notes on Important Sophists]. Short forms may also use id. to indicate that this quote comes from the same authority as the previous one. For a side-by-side comparison of the three most commonly used citation styles, including a table of all APA citation guidelines, see the citation styles table.