Legal citation

When you write something really important and you want to prove what you're saying is true, you need to tell people where you got your information from. This is called "citing your sources."

When lawyers and judges write about the law, they also need to cite their sources. This helps them to prove that what they're saying is true and it also helps other people to find the same information if they want to learn more.

Legal citation is a special way of telling people where you found your information. It almost looks like a secret code because it has so many abbreviations and symbols. For example, instead of writing out the whole name of a book, lawyers and judges might just use a few letters to represent the book's title. This saves time and makes it easier to fit lots of information into a small space.

Some of the most important things that legal citation tells you are the name of the book or article, the author's name, the page numbers where you found the information, and the date that the book or article was published. By putting all of this information together, someone else can easily find the same information that you used in your writing.