Canadian Legal Citation/Secondary Sources

Periodicals

A typical reference for a periodical should look like this:

Stanley B. Frost, "The Early Days of Law Teaching at McGill" (1984), 9 Dal. L.J. 150.

This form can be broken down into the following components.

Author,	"Title"	(year),	volume	Journal	first page.
Stanley B. Frost,	"The Early Days of Law Teaching at McGill"	(1984),	9	Dal. L.J.	150.

Author: The author's name is typically ordered first name first, last name last. If there are two authors, their names should be divided by an "&". With three authors the first two are separated by a comma and the middle and last should be separated by "&". If there are more than three authors, only list the first followed by et al.

'Title: The journal title should be in quotations, or as an alternative an underline may be used.

Volume:

Journals: The journals should be named in their abbreviated form. See Appendix:Periodicals for a complete list of proper abbreviations.

First page: Only the first page of the article should be sited, never use a range of pages.

Books

A typical reference for a periodical should look like this:

A. Lambert & D. Smith, The Law of Gravity: an Analysis of Weights and Measurements Legislation, (Montreal: University of Westmount Press, 1989).

This form can be broken down into the following components.

Author,	Title,	edition	(city of publication:	publisher,	year of publication)	pinpoint refence.
A. Lambert & D. Smith,	The Law of Gravity: an Analysis of Weights and Measurements Legislation		(Montreal:	University of Westmount Press,	1989)	.