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

¡But see § 2-115(2)!
Where no unique address is available indicate the source and database identification
information in a parenthetical, e.g.
• (VersusLaw)
• (LexisNexis, News & Business, News, Major World Publications)
• (LexisNexis Veterans Benefits Manual and Related Laws and Regulations CD-ROM).
Similarly, if a complete URL is either unavailable or unwieldy, provide a base URL and
provide the steps that will retrieve the document in parenthesis, e.g.
• (follow "Data & Research" link; then follow "Policy Research Reports" link).
§ 2-110(3) Examples
– American Bar Association, Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar,
Legal Education Statistics from ABA-Approved Law Schools, available at
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/resources/statistics.html (last
visited Oct. 15, 2012).
– Dep't of Veterans Affairs, M21-1, The Adjudiciation Division § 2.03 (LexisNexis
Veterans Benefits Manual and Related Laws and Regulations CD-ROM, 2011).
Principle 3: A date should be furnished for an electronic source when the document citation
does not itself carry that information unambiguously. That date should be the stated "current
through" date or release date for a disc publication, the "through" date for online sources if
available or a "last modified" or "last updated" date if one is furnished for the cited material
or, failing all else, a "last visited" or "accessed" date. Where such a date is required, it should
be placed at the end of the citation in a parenthetical. If there is already a parenthetical
including source and database information (see above), the two should be combined,
separated by a comma.
¡But see § 2-115(3)!
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