Reference Materials on Footnotes
and Bibliography1. Remember to cite your legal authorities and cases correctly - click here
2. How to put a "book citation" together - click here
3. How to put a "webpage citation" together - click here
4. Sample MLA sytle bibliography or reference - click here
a little about footnotes in legal writing:
legal scholarly writing is thick with footnotes -- few textual sentences stand without them
three functions of footnotes -
1. to document the text -- providing both authority and bibliography
2. to attribute borrowed ideas to their sources -- avoiding plagiarism, and
3. to embellish the main text -- permitting the author to engage in creative digressions and to offer personal, even humorous asides to the reader
good luck.
Prof. J.
5/28/04