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APA Legal references

APA Legal References @ Purdue OWL
Most legal materials are cited using Bluebook style, which is the standard legal citation style used in all disciplines (see Bluebook style in "The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation," 2015). APA defers to Bluebook style for legal materials and uses those templates and patterns in bibliographies. This resource lists some of the common legal references APA users might need in their work, but it is not exhaustive. Please note, legal conventions may differ outside the US.
APA Style and Grammar Guidelines

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The Indigo Book
The Indigo Book is a Creative Commons Copyright-Free Alternative to the Blue Book. You can use it just as you would the Harvard Blue Book for guidance on citing the law, but at no cost to you. This is a great resource you can use anywhere--on your computer, tablet, or phone.
Uniform Maine Citations
Uniform Maine Citations provides updated rules for the citation of Maine legal authorities, including constitutional provisions, statutory and legislative materials, judicial decisions, court rules, treatises, periodicals, and miscellaneous Maine authorities.

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The Redbook : a manual on legal style by Bryan A. Garner This book provides a comprehensive guide to the essential rules of legal writing. Unlike most style or grammar guides, it focuses on the special needs of legal writers, answering a wide spectrum of questions about grammar and style -- both rules and exceptions. It also gives detailed, authoritative advice on punctuation, capitalization, spelling, footnotes, and citations, with illustrations in legal context. Designed for law students, law professors, practicing lawyers, and judges, the work emphasizes the ways in which legal writing differs from other styles of technical writing. Its how-to sections deal with editing and proofreading, numbers and symbols, and overall document design. Features: * Cautions on use of 500 stuffy phrases and needless legalisms, along with their everyday English translations * Details rules for 800 words with required prepositions in certain contexts * Explains the correct usage of more than 1,000 words that are often troublesome to legal writers * Gives tips on preparing briefs and other court documents, opinion letters and demand letters, research memos, and contracts * Provides model documents of all types of legal documents and pleadings Reviews 200 terms of art that take on new meanings in legal contexts
Call Number: KF250 .G375 2006

ISBN: 9780314168917

Publication Date: 2006-07-01

How to Cite Constitutions, Statutes, and Similar Materials
This is a short explanation of how to cite statutes and constitutions from the Legal Information Institute.

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