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Such citations and abbreviations are found in court decisions, statutes, regulations, journal articles, books, and other documents. Below is a basic list of very common abbreviations. Because publishers adopt different practices regarding how abbreviations are printed, one may find abbreviations with or without periods for each letter.
When the 1,000th volume is reached (the threshold in earlier years was lower), the volume number is reset to 1 and a "2d" is appended after the reporter's abbreviation. Some case reporters are in their third series, and a few are approaching their fourth. Some very old Supreme Court cases have odd-looking citations, such as Marbury v.
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In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called ...
The primary difference is that the Michigan system "omits all periods in citations, uses italics somewhat differently, and does not use 'small caps.'" [38] As noted, Texas merely supplements The Bluebook with items that are unique to Texas courts, such as citing cases when Texas was an independent republic, [39] petition and writ history, [40 ...
The ISO 4 abbreviation for journal. Include dots (e.g. J. Phys., not J Phys). If unset, links to find out what the ISO 4 abbreviation is will be displayed. Use |abbreviation=no to hide the field. |discipline = Topic of the journal. |peer-reviewed = Put no if journal is not peer-reviewed (in which case {{Infobox magazine}} is probably more ...
list The abbreviation for the law list to which the case belongs, from the case number. Used only in "abbrev" or "tooltip" mode; can be left out otherwise. text Used only in "link" mode. The text to be displayed in the link. Defaults to "Court of Appeal". The first unnamed parameter ("mode") may be one of: tooltip
This is a list of journals and their associated Bluebook abbreviation. The list is based on the entries explicitly listed in the 19th edition. Entries with a (18) are found in the 18th edition, but not the 19th.