What is a citation?
Citations to legal materials follow a standard format which makes it possible for anyone to find cited cases, statutes, regulations, and law review articles.
Most legal citations consist of three basic partsL
1. the name of the case, statute, or article
2. a statement of where the item can be found in a multi-volume set of legal materials written as:
volume number name of publication (or set) page number
A complete case citation looks like this:
United States Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 490 (1954).
