apa citation law
copyright ©1995-2018 by the writing lab & the owl at purdue and purdue university. most legal materials are cited using bluebook style, which is the standard legal citation style used in all disciplines (see bluebook style in the bluebook: a uniform system of citation, 2015). parenthetical citations and narrative citations in-text are formatted the same as with any other source (first element of the reference list entry, year), though unlike with other sources, court decisions and cases use italics for the title in the in-text citation. this template follows this list of elements at the top of this section in its entirety, because the reporter cited, the federal reporter, publishes decisions from various us circuit courts. state court decisions closely follow the templates above, but because there are various reporters that publish their decisions, that element of the template will vary and is represented here by the word "reporter. in-text citations are formatted similarly to court decisions above (name of the act, year). some federal statutes may include public law numbers, which you can use in the reference list entry in place of the u.s.c.