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Chicago 17th edition author-date

Author-date for the Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition

Legal materials

Works with only a handful of citations to legal and public documents may be able to limit these to the text.  Note that in legal style, parentheses within parentheses are used. To avoid such awkward constructions in the text, however, Chicago advises using notes for citations to legal and public documents whenever possible (see 14.271).

For legal materials, Chicago recommends using the The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (see 14.269). Chicago further states: for citation guides used in Canada, see 14.293; for those used in the United Kingdom, see 14.297. Following the broad principle of using citation styles used within a specific jurisdiction, we recommend using the Australian Guide to Legal Citation 4th edition when citing legal materials.