2010 by Edward B. Sadowski. All rights reserved. Citations in primary and secondary sources and documents use abbreviations of case reporters, codes, courts, law reviews, and other legal resources. Proper forms of abbreviations are required by courts for all submitted legal documents. Abbreviations of courts and publications used in legal citation are often completely inscrutable, akin to trying to decipher hieroglyphics. Before you can track down a publication in a citation, you need to figure out its complete title. There is not a standard set of abbreviations used by all law reporters and reference guides. Such sources as Shepard’s, Black’s.
