Your Quick Guide to Citing Legal Sources based on Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation McGill Law Journal,
7th Edition (2010)
http://www.durhamcollege.ca/wp-content/uploads/Legal-Citation-for-Legal-Administration.pdf

The University of Victoria created a robust style for Endnote for the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation(CGULC). Primary and secondary legal sources are handled by the style, meaning records can be imported, created, and exported (i.e. to Word as footnotes) in a format conforming to CGULC. Information on the style can be found at the UVic Law Library website at http://library.law.uvic.ca/research-help/research-tools

The style was developed for Endnote 6 and is compatible with Endnote 7. The style is not available on the Endnote website because of registry changes made in the Preferences section of the program. They are planning on
removing this change when they update the style for Endnote 9, at which time, they will make it available to Endnote.

The University of Montreal has further developed the Endnote CGULC style for their use.

They have not any success creating formats for primary legal material in Refworks.

[revised May 13, 2010]

See http://www.library.ubc.ca/pubs/citinggp.pdf

Includes Print and Electronic
• Monograph (Book)
• Monograph – Microform
• Statistics Canada – Serial
• Statistics Canada – Census Publication
• Parliamentary Report
• Parliamentary Debate
• United Nations Document

“A Citation Manual for European Community Materials – Second Annual Edition” in (1996) 19 Fordham Int’l L.J. 1317-1334 –
http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/frdint19&id=1339&collection=journals&index=journals/frdint

The most helpful pages re citing EU treaties are pages 1317 – 1322.

Citation of Internet Sites (McGill Citation Guide) [BINDER]

Citation Style

Using brackets [ ] or parentheses ( ) around the date indicates whether the date is necessary or optional when you are trying to find the volume on the shelf.

If the date is in brackets [ ] the date is necessary because the volumes of the report series are numbered beginning with volume 1 every year. Without the date, you would have only the series, volume number and page. If you tried to find the correct volume on the shelf you would see there were many volume 1′s – one for each year – so you would have to look through them all to find the case.

If the date is in parentheses ( ) the date is optional because the volumes are numbered consecutively, for example from 1 to 100.

Here are examples of citations for the SAME case, reported in three different report law series:

1. Hodgkinson v Simms (1988), 55 DLR (4th) 577 (BCCA)

2. Hodgkinson v Simms (1988), 33 BCLR (2d) 129 (CA)

3. Hodgkinson v Simms (1988), [1989] 3 WWR 132 (CA)
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In examples 1 & 2, the large volume numbers indicate the volumes are numbered consecutively, hence the dates are not needed to find the correct volume – having the volume number, report abbreviation and series number are enough. The year of the decision is shown in parentheses ( ).

In example 3, the WWR series begins numbering its volumes with volume 1 annually. So, the date on the spine of the volume [1989] AND the volume number 3 are both mandatory to find the volume. Because the spine date is necessary, it is shown in brackets [ ].
Note that the year of the decision is also shown in parentheses ( ) but it precedes the spine date. The two dates are separated by a comma. This is the (McGill) Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation Standard Style.

An alternative, non-standard citation for example 3 is: Hodgkinson v Simms, [1989] 3 WWR 132 (BCCA, 1988)

NOTE: this is NOT the (McGill) Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation Standard , but it is a more concise style which achieves the same thing.
It shows the jurisdiction, court level, and the date of the decision in parentheses after the citation.

Note: the jurisdiction (BC) is only included when the abbreviation for the law report series does not provide that info.
So you should not include (SCC) at the end of citations for Supreme Court of Canada cases reported in the SCR report series.

Use McGill’s Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation LAW LIBRARY learning commons (level 2) & reference room (level 2): KE259 .C35 2010 for other citation rules & examples.

Citing/Citation of Law Reviews
Most-Cited Legal Periodicals: U.S. and selected non-U.S. a database
providing the data used by Fred Shapiro (supra):

http://law.wlu.edu/library/research/lawrevs/mostcited.asp

An Empirical Evaluation Of Specialized Law Reviews” from the Florida State University Law Review (Vol. 26:813).
– online at: www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/downloads/264/geor.pdf
(html version via Google at http://tinyurl.com/3bgrx). Some rankings on page 19 / page 831 (adobe acrobat & original page numbers).

Robert M. Jarvis and Phyllis G. Coleman, Ranking Law Reviews: An Empirical Analysis Based on Author Prominence, 39 Arizona Law Review 15 (1997)
– fulltext is in LexisNexis, but not the table listing different journals! You should be able to get a copy by Interlibrary Loan if you think it might help.

Fred R. Shapiro, The Most-Cited Law Reviews , 29 J. Legal Stud. 389 (2000).

Style Sheets for Citing Resources (Print & Electronic): Examples & General Rules for MLA, APA, & Chicago & Turabian Styles
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Style.html
Citation Styles, Style Guides, and Avoiding Plagiarism

To retrieve records for law reports by their abbreviations in Voyager OPAC, you must enter the abbreviation in quotations with spaces between the letters.

For example to find DLR or D.L.R. search as “D L R ” or “D L R” using either Keyword relevance or Keyword boolean.