Other legislative documents such as witness statements, hearings, non-legal bills 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. The following example has been codified in Titles 2, 28 and 42 of the Code, so that it is cited with the public law number. 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. An uncodified law (published in the United States Code) must be cited using its public law number and information about where it was published. This template follows this list of items at the beginning of this section in its entirety, as the cited journalist, the Federal Reporter, publishes the decisions of various U.S. district courts. F., F.2d and F.3d in the above model indicate the journalist and his later series. The primary source of Canadian legal citations is the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (also known as the McGill Guide).
The Camosun Library has the 9th edition, 2018. Phone: KE 259 C36 2018 at the Lansdowne Research Help Desk. If you cite a legal source and there is no corresponding rule in the APA Handbook, you should consult the McGill Guide. The examples in the McGill Guide are highlighted in yellow. For more information on the citation style of the McGill Guide, see the Camosun McGill Legal Citation Guide. The reference must indicate the printed source, unless an electronic source is given as the official version. To cite federal statutes (also commonly referred to as statutes or statutes) in the APA style, specify the name of the law, “U.S.C. (short for United States Code”), the title and section of the code in which the law appears, the year, and optionally the URL. The following example refers to a case reported in Dominion Law Reports, a print case law reporter that publishes cases from across Canada. See a list of other frequently quoted journalists in the left-hand box. When an act is codified in different non-consecutive sections of the Code, it is also cited using the public law number and information on its position in all laws. Patents are cited more as traditional sources of APA.
Each state`s laws and statutes are cited in a format similar to federal laws whenever possible. “U.S.C.” is replaced by an abbreviation for the code of that state, and the headings and sections are presented in the same manner. However, some state codes use item or chapter numbers instead of or in addition to section numbers, or do not use titles. pursuant to section 23 of the Victoria Indigenous Treaty Progress Act, 2018 (Vic). Statutes are laws and laws adopted by legislative bodies. Federal laws can be found in the United States Code, abbreviated U.S.C., where they are divided into sections called titles, which cover different topics. New laws are included in the title to which they most belong. Land laws are published in a separate country-specific publication. Example: Minister of Immigration and Border Protection v. Kumar (2017) 260 CLR 367 (Austl.). Reference (for reference list) APA Citation: Name by name, tape source page (hearing date). Here is an example of a reference to a court decision: [This example refers the reader to the 3rd page of the decision.
Paragraph numbers (if available) are preferred to page numbers]. FR stands for Federal Register. Other elements follow the model of the codified federal regulatory model explained above. ## Here are the article and paragraph numbers. The paragraph element can be omitted if you quote the entire article. Cases and court decisions usually contain the following: Director of Public Prosecutions v Stanojlovic and Another (2017) 53 VR 90 (Austl.). title, source (see Bluebook for abbreviations) and section number of the act; The above bill is for the Senate and can be amended for the House of Representatives by replacing S. with H.R. at the beginning.
Res.### represents the resolution number, written Res. 111, and Volume # represents the volume of the Congressional Record, written 122 (“volume” is omitted). No, specifying a URL is optional in APA-style reference entries for law sources (e.g., lawsuits, laws). It may be useful to do this to help the reader retrieve the source, but it is not necessary because the other information contained should be enough to find it. If you have a quote in the text that contains a direct quote: The title of the hearing usually includes the name of the subcommittee. Some changes to the style of APA-7e to reflect the McGill Guide and Canadian legal citation practices have been listed below as exceptions to the APA rules. These examples include explanations. Contact your instructor for their preferences. (Canada Post v Lepine, 2009, para. 5) [This example refers the reader to the 5th paragraph of the decision. See APA Publication Manual 7th ed., 8.13, p.
264] You should consult the Blue Book for state laws, as some states use chapter or article numbers instead of sections. Similarly, the Blue Book contains all the necessary abbreviations and symbols. Some federal laws may include public numbers that you can use in the reference list entry instead of USC publication information. Case decision found on the legal website: (APA Publication Manual 7th ed., 11.4, p. 11). 358, URL is optional, not essential, but may help the reader) Jurisdiction of the court, in parentheses (e.g. U.S. Supreme Court, Illinois Court of Appeals) The year included is the year in which the law was published in the source consulted, not the year in which it was passed.
modified or supplemented. However, if the law is spread across different sections of the Code or is not included in the Code at all, provide the public law number in addition to information about the source where you accessed the law, such as: In general, you should identify a law in an APA reference entry by its position in the United States Code (U.S.C.).
