Whether you're using the APA Style rules or another style guide, if you're citing Canadian legislative materials, you'll need to format the legal citations according to the rules set out in the 10th edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (2023), which is also known as the McGill Guide. According to page E-33 in the McGill Guide, authors can use the following formatting to cite a municipal by-law:
| |
Municipality, |
by-law or revised by law |
number, |
title |
(date), |
pinpoint. |
| Unrevised |
City of Whitehorse, |
by-law |
No 97-42 |
Zoning By-law |
(11 May 1998), |
s 1. |
| Revised |
City of Montreal, |
revised by-law |
C S-0.1.1, |
By-law Concerning Collection Services |
|
s 5. |
Using this information, the citation for the revised by-law is as follows:
1 City of Montreal, revised by-law C S-0.1.1, By-law Concerning Collection Services s 5.
For more information on creating legal citations, please refer to the Writing Centre guide on legal citation. Authors should note that legal citations are typically provided in footnotes, even if the author is following the APA Style rules.
Reference
McGill Law Journal. (2023). Canadian guide to uniform legal citation (10th ed.). Thomson Reuters.
