Legal citation is the style of crediting and referencing other documents or sources of authority in legal writing.
In addition to the basic rules of footnoting and quotation that closely follows regular citation rules, there are several broad classes of law citation:
// Case citation is the system used in common law countries such as the United States, England and Wales, Canada, New Zealand Australia and India to uniquely identify the location of past court cases in special series of books called reporters. ...
Citation by country
Each country usually has at least one de facto citation standard that has been adopted by most of the country's institutions. De facto is a Latin expression that means in fact or in practice. It is commonly used as opposed to de jure (meaning by law) when referring to matters of law or governance or technique (such as standards), that are found in the common experience as created or developed without...
Australian legal citation usually follows the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (commonly known as AGLC)
Canadian legal citation usually follows the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (commonly called the McGill Guide)
Dutch legal citation follows the Leidraad voor juridische auteurs[1] (commonly known as Leidraad)
The definitive guide to Australian Legal citation is the Guide to Legal Citation (commonly known as AGLC) as published by Melbourne University Law Review. ... The Bluebook: a Uniform System of Citation is a book and a widely used legal citation system for the U.S. compiled by the Harvard Law Review Association along with the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
While a uniform citation system should not be adopted without due consideration of the inherent problems that do exist in such a system, most of the depictions of these problems have made bogeymen out of stumbling blocks.
Citations to scrolls took a simple form: the number of the scroll and the paragraph number of the material being cited.
A uniform citation system would, for example, Lexis-Nexis asserted, assist judges and court staff in performing their tasks because it would provide a means of initially, rather than post hoc, identifying opinions issued by the courts.
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