The footnote should be as follows: Author’s First name and last name, a comma, the title of the work in italics, a way to find the work, the page or pages the cited source comes from and the year of publication, a period. Then, “Available at” and a url if possible. So, for example: Eric Engle, My Next Great Idea, 1 Journal of Law and Economics, page 17 (2010). Available at: http://lexnet.com/my-next-great-idea.htm The footnote should be sufficient so that I or your reader can locate the original text. If/ you have lost the source, you should indicate as much of the source as you recall. An imperfect footnote is much much better than no footnote!
http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/ presents detailed rules – including examples! – of how to cite to legal sources in U.S. Style
http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/published/oscola/oscola_2006.pdf presents detailed rules – including examples! – of how to cite to legal sources in British Style they are similar but not the same. Please format your footnotes in either of these styles. You should choose the style based on whether you wish to try to publish your work in the U.S. or Europe, respectively.
http://drcwww.uvt.nl/dbi/instructie/eu/en/T42.htm shows how to cite to E.U. Laws.
You want your footnotes to be as proper as possible because editors at law journals will judge your work a bit based on the quality of your footnotes. No editor wants to reformat your footnotes. But an imperfect footnote is so much better than no footnote. It’s the difference between “acceptable” (a bad footnote) and “unacceptable and thus failure” (no footnote).
Most all of your life you have been told What to think. Anyone can memorize. We do not tell you what to think but How. That’s what we are looking for, and why plagiarism is common, yet unacceptable. It’s common because 1) someone else has thought of this 2) the grammar is so hard 3) it doesn’t seem like a big deal, people copy all the time. But it is a big deal, because we need to know where you got your nice text from, to be fair to other authors, and so you don’t appear to be stealing other’s ideas and presenting them as your own.
Citation is also important because Courts will Not “just take your word on it”. The Court Must have good law, must know where the law is which you are relying on!
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