General Rules of Legal Citations The majority of students at Royal Roads University use the rules of the Publication (2010) (hereafter referred to as the APA Manual of the American Psychological Association manual) to format in-text citations and references. The APA manual provides information in Appendix 7.1 on how to create references to legal materials; however, because the American is an American organization, only American legal materials are Psychological Association addressed in the appendix. Accordingly, authors citing Canadian legislation need to turn to another source for assistance with Canadian legal citations. The McGill Law Canadian Journal’s (hereafter referred to as the currently in its 8th Guide to Uniform Legal Citation McGill Guide), edition, has set the standard for Canadian legal citations and is a widely-accepted system of referencing (McGill Law Journal, 2014, pp. E-iii–iv). The University of British Columbia Law Library maintains an excellent , which provides extensive information from the so this document will not attempt to duplicate the McGill Guide, information provided in that guide. Students looking for examples of legal citations (e.g., how to cite Parliamentary publications, cases, legislation, or international law sources such as UN documents) should refer to the . For all other types of citations (referred to as “secondary
General Rules of Legal Citations The majority of students at Royal Roads University use the rules of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2010) (hereafter referred to as the APA manual) to format in-text citations and references. The APA manual provides information in Appendix 7.1 on how to create references to legal materials; however, because the American Psychological Association is an American organization, only American legal materials are addressed in the appendix. Accordingly, authors citing Canadian legislation need to turn to another source for assistance with Canadian legal citations. The McGill Law Journal’s Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (hereafter referred to as the McGill Guide), currently in its 8th edition, has set the standard for Canadian legal citations and is a widely-accepted system of referencing (McGill Law Journal, 2014, pp. E-iii–iv). The University of British Columbia Law Library maintains an excellent , which provides extensive information from the McGill Guide, so this document will not attempt to duplicate the information provided in that guide. Students looking for examples of legal citations (e.g., how to cite Parliamentary publications, cases, legislation, or international law sources such as UN documents) should refer to the . For all other types of citations (referred to as “secondary