Introduction to Basic Legal Citation - access-to-law home

Oregon
• Or. Rev. Stat. § 71.1010 ({currency information}).
• Or. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 71.1010 (West {currency information}).*
• ORS 71.1010.**
* Both The Bluebook and ALWD Citation Manual call for identification of the publisher or
brand of any commercial compilation used, not prepared under direct supervision of the
state - West in the second example. Both also call for adding the designation "Ann." when
the compilation's name includes the word "annotated." The AALL Universal Citation Guide
would not include the publisher in any case nor would it indicate whether the version used
was annotated.
** Within Oregon, this more economical statutory citation format, without currency
information, is used in decisions of the state's own courts and submissions to them, under
circumstances where there is little ambiguity about which jurisdiction's statutes and which
version are referred to.
Pennsylvania
• 13 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 1101 ({currency information}).
• 13 Pa. Cons. Stat. Ann. § 1101 (West {currency information}).*
• 13 Pa.C.S. § 1101.**
* Both The Bluebook and ALWD Citation Manual call for identification of the publisher or
brand of any commercial compilation used, not prepared under direct supervision of the
state - West in the second example. Both also call for adding the designation "Ann." when
the compilation's name includes the word "annotated." The AALL Universal Citation Guide
would not include the publisher in any case nor would it indicate whether the version used
was annotated.
** Within Pennsylvania, this more economical statutory citation format, without currency
information, is used in decisions of the state's own courts and submissions to them.
Rhode Island
• R.I. Gen. Laws § 6-1-1 ({currency information}).
• G.L. 1956 § 6-1-1.*
* Within Rhode Island, this more economical statutory citation format, with no explicit
indication of jurisdiction and no currency information, is used in decisions of the state's own
courts and submissions to them, under circumstances where there is little ambiguity about
which jurisdiction's statutes and which version are referred to.
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