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This is a practical and advice-driven guide on identifying good sources, and how to cite those sources using Wiki markup. The handout introduces the citation toolbar and other areas to check for help.
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The most common sources of authority cited are court decisions (cases), statutes, regulations, government documents, treaties, and scholarly writing. Typically, a proper legal citation will inform the reader about a source's authority, how strongly the source supports the writer's proposition, its age, and other, relevant information.
A legal citation is a "reference to a legal precedent or authority, such as a case, statute, or treatise, that either substantiates or contradicts a given position." [1] Where cases are published on paper, the citation usually contains the following information: Court that issued the decision; Report title; Volume number; Page, section, or ...
By 2011, The Bluebook was "the main guide and source of authority" on legal references for the past 90 years. [25] It is recognized as the "gold standard" for legal references in the United States, even though it was originally designed only to help teach law students how to cite cases and other legal material. [26]
Some sources attempt mainly to state what the law itself says. Some other sources attempt to state the effect of the law, such as a source about social effects or impacts arising from the implementation of a law, a source about a policy recommendation that in someone's opinion should be embodied in a law, a source about the legislative process, or a source on constitutional history.
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Paul Craig, 'Theory, "Pure Theory" and Values in Public Law' [2005] PL 440; Books follow a similar pattern. Note the order is Author, Title (Edition, Publisher Year) page. Joseph Raz, The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality (2nd edn, OUP 2009) If a title and a subtitle have nothing in between, a colon should be used to separate them.