Books & Reports
Books, treatises, Restatements, model laws, reference works and institutional reports.
A book, a Restatement or a report is someone’s account of the law, so your reader trusts it only after opening the same words you read. Pages do not travel between versions. Hamilton’s line that interpreting the laws is “the proper and peculiar province of the courts” is on page 467 of Clinton Rossiter’s 1961 edition of The Federalist. In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369 (2024), the opinion of the Court cites that sentence at page 525 of Jacob Cooke’s 1961 edition, and Justice Gorsuch’s concurrence cites Rossiter’s page 467. So settle three facts before you cite anything written about the law: who issued it, which version you read, and where in that version the words are.
A book with two authors and a subtitle, pinpointed to a page
Felix Frankfurter & James M. Landis, The Business of the Supreme Court: A Study in the Federal Judicial System 257 (1928).
- 1 authors as the title page names them; & joins two
- 2 title
- 3 subtitle after a colon, kept in every full citation
- 4 page: no comma, no “at”
- 5 year of the edition; one edition, so the year alone
A Restatement, pinpointed to a comment
Restatement (Second) of Torts § 402A cmt. k (Am. L. Inst. 1965).
- 6 Restatement, series in words
- 7 subject
- 8 section sign, one space, number
- 9 comment letter as printed
- 10 Institute; year of the volume that prints the section
19.1One book: author, title, page, edition, year
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19.2Multivolume treatises, supplements and online updates
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19.3Editors, translators and chapters in collections
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19.4Dictionaries, encyclopedias, annotations and pattern instructions
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19.5Restatements and Principles
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19.6Uniform acts, model codes, model rules and ethics opinions
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19.7The Restatements, codes and acts courts cite most
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19.8Government and institutional reports
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19.9Short forms
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19.10Errors to catch
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