Please format citations and references to Canadian legal documents to the rules described in the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (McGill Law Journal, 2023). Following the Canadian legal citation system for these resources will both “verify that your legal references (a) contain the information necessary for retrieval and (b) reflect the current status of legal authority” (2020, p.356) with the result that “legal references are usually already written in legal style and require few, if any, changes for an APA Style reference list entry” (2020, p. 355).
For an introduction to citing Canadian legal materials, as well as a downloadable help guide and checklist, please visit Legal Citation. You can also search WriteAnswers to find specific information about formatting citations to different kinds of Canadian legal documents, such as the information on citing cases, laws, or parliamentary papers below:
Finally, the following quizzes and exercises supplement the help guide and WriteAnswers FAQ entries with practice questions and examples as well:
References
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
McGill Law Journal. (2023). Canadian guide to uniform legal citation (10th ed.). Thomson Reuters.
