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

Alabama
• Ala. Code § 7-1-101 ({currency information}).*
• Ala. Code § 7-1-101 (LexisNexis {currency information}).*
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 - LexisNexis in the second example. In jurisdictions where there are multiple print
editions, the ALWD Citation Manual identifies all publishers even the one whose version is
"official" being produced under contract with the state (West in this case). The AALL
Universal Citation Guide would not include the publisher in any case.
Alaska
• Alaska Stat. § 45.01.101 ({currency information}).*
• AS 45.01.101.**
* The ALWD Citation Manual identifies the publisher even when its version is "official" being
produced under contract with the state (LexisNexis in this case); The Bluebook does not.
The AALL Universal Citation Guide would not include the publisher in any case.
** Within Alaska, 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. See Alaska Stat. § 01.05.011 (2009).
Arizona
• Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 47-1101 ({currency information}).
• Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 47-1101 ({currency information}).*
• Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 47-1101 (LexisNexis {currency information}).*
• A.R.S. § 47-1101 ({currency information}).**
* 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 - LexisNexis in the third example. In jurisdictions where there are multiple print
editions, the ALWD Citation Manual identifies all publishers even the one whose version is
"official" being produced under contract with the state (West in this case - 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 Arizona, this more economical statutory citation format 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 are referred to. See Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 1-101
(2009).
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