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

Massachusetts
• Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 106, § 1-101 ({currency information}).
• Mass. Ann. Laws ch. 106, § 1-101 (LexisNexis {currency information}).*
• Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. ch. 106, § 1-101 (West {currency information}).*
• G. L. c. 106, § 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 second example, West in the third. 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 Massachusetts, 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.
Michigan
• Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.1101 ({currency information}).
• Mich. Stat. Ann. § 19.1101 (LexisNexis {currency information}).*
• Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. § 440.1101 (West {currency information}).*
• MCL 440.1101.**
* 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 - LexisNexis in the second example, West in the third. 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 Michigan, this more economical statutory citation format set out in court rules is
used in decisions of the state's own courts and submissions to them. For those rules, see §
7-500.
Minnesota
• Minn. Stat. § 336.1-101 ({currency information}).
• Minn. Stat. Ann. § 336.1-101 (West {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 - 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.
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