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Legal Citation
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Call Number: KF245 .U55ISBN: 9780615361161Available in the Carrier Library Reference Room
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Introduction to Basic Legal CitationFrom the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School. 2017.
Legal Abbreviations and References
Legal briefs and legal literature commonly use abbreviations as a shorthand way of referring to sources.
A typical source abbreviation looks like this:
127 S. Ct. 336
127 is the volume number
S. Ct. (or Supreme Court Reporter) is the source
336 is the first page
A reference to a law looks just a little different:
2 USC 381
2 is the title
USC (or U.S. Code) is the source
381 is the section
Here are the abbreviations for some common legal resources:
| ALR | American Law Reports |
| AmJur2d | American Jurisprudence 2nd ed. |
| CFR | Code of Federal Regulations |
| CJS | Corpus Juris Secundum |
| F2d, F3d | Federal Reporter 2nd Series, 3rd Series |
| FR | Federal Register |
| FSupp | Federal Supplement |
| LEd2d | U.S. Supreme Court Reports. Lawyer's ed. |
| S CT | Supreme Court Reporter |
| Stat | U.S. Statutes at Large |
| US | U.S. Reports |
| USC | U.S. Code |
| USCS | U.S. Code Service |
| Va | Virginia Reports |
| Va Cir | Va. Circuit Court Opinions |