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Canadian Legal Citations

by Paul Graham on 2024-02-26T10:15:11-04:00 in Academic Skills | 0 Comments

Canadian Legal Citations

The APA, 7th ed. only includes examples for legal material from the United States and the United Nations.  APA suggests following The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (2015).  These guidelines adopt the style outlined in the Canadian equivalent, the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (also known as "The McGill Guide.").

The APA Manual suggests adding URLs where it will aid retrieval.  When citing cases or court decisions to include the "URL from which you retrieved the case information (optional: this is not strictly required for legal citations but may aid readers in retrieval). (p. 358).  For legislation, one may "include the URL from which you retrieved the statute after the year.  This is not strictly required for legal citations but may aid readers in retrieval." (p. 361) 

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed., 2020.


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