Appellate appendix
Original research draft · October 2026
Working pattern
[Required appendix designation] [volume]:[page].
Capture from the source
Receiving convention; final appendix; volume; assigned page
Check before you use it
Recheck the citation after appendix assembly and PDF export.
Common error: PDF viewer counts may shift while assigned record pages remain stable.
Completed example
Appeal, receiving convention, appendix, declaration, and all page coordinates are fictional. No actual appellate rule or record sufficiency determination is stated.
JA 2:318 (declaration ¶ 9) [TRAIN-D56].
Read the supplied source facts
Fictional packet TRAIN-D56 provides the final two-volume joint appendix in a Northmere training appeal. The supplied receiving convention uses JA followed by volume and assigned page. A declaration's paragraph 9 appears in volume 2 on assigned page 318. Its source filing used printed page 4, and a preliminary appendix draft placed it at assigned page 301. The final PDF viewer calls the page 126 because each volume has covers and preliminary material. The assignment asks for the reference that the receiving appellate panel can use in the final appendix.
Why this works
The final assigned appendix page and volume are the controlling retrieval coordinates under the supplied convention. The parenthetical identifies the underlying component without substituting its original page for the appendix locator. Do not retain draft page 301 after final assembly or calculate the location from the viewer's offset without checking the actual page label. Open the exported deliverable and verify that assigned page 318 contains the cited paragraph. A reliable record map preserves original filing identity, original locator, appendix volume, assigned page, and final PDF location as different fields rather than treating them as interchangeable page numbers.
When the facts change
If the appendix is rebuilt after adding material, recheck all affected assigned pages even when the underlying declaration is unchanged. If the receiving convention requires a different designation, adapt the visible form to that instruction while retaining the verified mapping. If a cited document was omitted from the appendix, resolve its availability and permitted citation route instead of inventing an appendix page or assuming that the panel has the source filing.
Apply the receiving court or publication’s requirements. These working forms do not establish citation permission, precedential weight, or support for a legal proposition.