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Citation Notes

Some commonly cited report series containing state-state arbitral decisions are the Arb Mat, Hague Ct Rep (Scott), Hague Ct Rep 2d (Scott), ILR and RIAA.

In general, the abbreviations for report series should appear as they do in one of the citation systems.

Where an otherwise unreported case is published in the International Legal Materials (abbreviated 'ILM'), the ILM should be cited.

Citation Index in Legal Information Retrieval

The following is a basic concept of Citation Index in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Citation Index may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Reference citations have always been a useful basis for indicating (indexing!) possibly useful relationships. Almost every writer of a term paper, to say nothing of more serious researchers, has pursued reference citations in good documents as a way to find other documents of interest. In effect, a string cluster is created, with each link through a reference citation leading to an older document that was cited in the newer document. This kind of citation indexing can only lead backwards in time, because it is impossible to cite a document that has not yet been created! Creating indexes that could trace reference citations forward in time was extremely laborious before the advent of the computer. Such citation indexing was limited largely to the legal literature until the Institute for Scientific Information (1961, 1969, 1976) introduced the Science citation index in 1961, followed by the Social science citation index in 1969 and the Arts and humanities citation index in 1976. These indexes have now become standard tools, available in both print and electronic forms. They permit the user to begin with a given document and to trace its citation in subsequent documents forward in time. To the extent that a reference citation indicates a link between messages related with respect to topic, purpose, meaning or significance, these links can be quite useful for Information Retrieval searching. See also bibliographic coupling; co-citation.

Citation in Law Libraries

The follow definition of Citation is of use in law library research: See Bibliographic citation.

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• Citation of authorities
• Cite