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How to Cite Legal Cases on a Reference Page

Relevant sources and proper citation lends authority to any work. When authors compose a scholarly article or research paper in either the American Psychological Association (APA) or American Sociological Association (ASA) style, they list their sources at the end of the document using a reference page. When listing legal cases cited in the document both styles follow the same format used by legal publishers cite court cases. Because Internet databases now make finding these cases widely available to the public, their citations vary slightly from the original.

Instructions

  1. Citing a Case as a Reference

    • 1

      List the case name in italics and follow with a comma. For example: Brown v. Jones,

    • 2

      List the volume number of the reporter in Arabic numerals, as in Brown v. Jones, 248.

    • 3

      List the reporter abbreviation. The Georgetown Law Library website (georgetown.edu) provides a table to help determine the reporter for each state. For example, cases in Texas are found in the South Western reporter and are abbreviated S.W. Federal cases are abbreviated U.S. For example: Brown v. Jones, 248 S.W.

    • 4

      List the first page where the case begins in the reporter, such as: Brown v. Jones, 248 S.W. 602.

    • 5

      List the state abbreviation and the year the case was decided in parenthesis. It would look like this: Brown v. Jones, 248 S.W. 602 (Tex. 2010).

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