Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations - New York ...

Cite unpublished cases as if citing a published case but in place of the reporter’s name, volume,
and page number, write “(not published)”.
Cite cases taken from an electronic database similarly to unpublished cases, substituting the
phrase “(electronic database)” or the name of the database, e.g., (Takdin), (Dinim), (Pad-Or), etc.
for “(not published)”:
4.0 Books
96
CA 18/94 Yarom Ahikam v. Roy Shelah (Takdin).
Bnk. (T-A) 2118/02, The Trustee v. Rubanenco, (not published).
Cite books by name of the author(s) [first initial, family name], title (in bold), followed by
edition, publisher and year (in parentheses), and page referenced:
U. Procaccia Corporate Law (1 st Ed. Hebrew University, 1989) 142.
5.0 Articles in Periodicals
Cite articles in periodicals by name of the the author(s) [first initial, family name], title of the
article (in quotation marks), title of the periodical (in bold), volume, year (in parentheses), and
first page of article:
R. Gavison “The Constitutional Revolution: a Reality or a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?”
Mishpatim 28 (1997) 21.
6.0 Newspapers and Weekly Journals
Cite articles in newspapers and weekly journals by name of the author(s) [first initial, family
name], title of the article (in quotation marks), title of the publication (in bold), date
[day.month.year] (in parentheses), and first page of the article:
A. Shachar “Television is Not a Baby Sitter” Ma ‘Ariv (13.5.80) 21.
III. SELECTED REFERENCES
AMOS SHAPIRA AND KEREN C. DE WITT-ARAR, INTRODUCTION TO THE LAW OF ISRAEL (Kluwer
Law International 1995).
THE LAW OF ISRAEL, A GENERAL SURVEY (Harry and Michael Sacher Institute for Legislative
Research and Comparative Law, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1995).
ESTHER M. SNYDER, ISRAEL: A LEGAL RESEARCH GUIDE (W.S. Hein & Co. 2000).