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

4.0 Books
Cite books by name of the author(s) [family name only (in footnotes), full name (in
bibliographies)] (italicized), title, volume, edition, place of publication, and year:
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Brox, Allgemeiner Teil des Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuchs, 22. Aufl., Köln 1998.
Often the numbers found on the margin of most books are included in a citation (e.g., Rn. 241):
Brox, Allgemeiner Teil des Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuchs, 22. Aufl., Köln 1998, Rn. 241.
Subsequently cite by author and margin number:
Brox, Rn. 241.
Cite commentaries by title and author of the relevant statutory provision [title/author], edition,
place of publication and year, passage referenced, and margin number:
Palandt/Heinrichs, 64. Aufl., München 2005, § 242 Rn. 42.
Subsequently cite by title/author, passage referenced, and margin number only:
Palandt/Heinrichs, § 818, Rn. 42.
5.0 Articles in Periodicals
Cite articles in periodicals by name of the author(s) [last name only] (italicized), title of the
periodical, year, first page of the article, and page referenced (in parentheses):
Mihm, Pflicht zur Verlesung notarieller Urkunden bei EDV-Einsatz, NJW 1997, 1321
(1324).
An unofficial list of abbreviations for secondary sources, treatises, journal articles, and
commentaries exists in HILDEBERT KIRCHNER/Claudia Butz ABKÜRZUNGSVERZEICHNIS DER
RECHTSSPRACHE (de Gruyter eds., 5th ed. 2002).
6.0 Newspapers and Weekly Journals
Cite articles in newspapers and weekly journals by name of the author(s) (if available), title of
the article, title of the newspaper or journal, issue number, date, and page referenced:
Deutschland wirft USA Völkerrechtsbruch vor, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Nr. 65 v.
05.03.1999, S. 1.