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

Kansas
• an. Stat. Ann. § 84-1-101 ({currency information}).
• Kan. Stat. Ann. § 84-1-101 (West {currency information}).*
• K.S.A. § 84-1-101.**
* 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 Kansas, 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.
Kentucky
• Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 355.1-101 (LexisNexis {currency information}).*
• Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 355.1-101 (West {currency information}).*
• KRS § 355.1-101.**
* 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 first example, West in the second. 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 Kentucky, 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.
Louisiana
• La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 10:1-101 ({currency information}).*
• La. Code Civ. Proc. Ann. § 10:1-101 ({currency information}).*
* Both The Bluebook and ALWD Citation Manual call for adding the designation "Ann."
when the compilation's name includes the word "annotated." The AALL Universal Citation
Guide would not indicate whether the version used was annotated.
Where this example has the abbreviation for "Code of Civil Procedure" citations to
Lousiana's other subject matter codes should substitute their abbreviations - e.g., "Civ.
Code" for "Civil Code" or "Code Crim. Proc." for "Code of Criminal Procedure."
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