Welcome back.
I'm Jenny Wondracek, one of your research
professors,
and we're here today to talk about
citations.
Specifically we're going to talk about how
you would cite an Act, in it's entirety.
I highly recommend that if you have not
done so, you watch the publication video
so
that you understand the process that a
statute
goes through as it's cited and as it's
published.
So let's take a quick look at a statute.
I have here the full citation, for the
Espionage Act.
Now this is the Act as it was published by
Congress, has not been chopped up and
arranged by subject.
So, let's break down the citation so you
understand what everything is.
First, we have the name of the Act.
So this could be the Espionage Act, the
Patriot Act, the Civil Rights Act, et
cetera.
Next we have the abbreviation for public
law.
So this tells you it's a public law, not a
private law
and that this is the first way that the
statute was published.
We go then to number 65, this tells you
that this Act was passed
by the 65th Congress, not the 64th or the
101st.
It's a way of dating the statute.
So then we go to 24.
As we discussed in the publication video,
public laws are numbered chronologically.
So this is the 24th law that was passed,
in the 65th term of Congress.
Then we move on to the citation to the
statutes at large.
These are in book format and can also be
found online.
So it's important to have this number if
you
want to look at the statute in its
entirety.
So 40 stands for the 40th volume of the
Statutes at large.
We know it's the Statutes at Large,
because it is abbreviated Stat.
Now there's also the British Statutes at
Large, so you have to make sure
that you're in the United States Statutes
at Large when you're looking up a law.
Next we have 217, this is a page number.
So if you go to volume 40 of the Statutes
at Large, page 217.
You'll find the espionage Act.
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This is the year of the act, so we know
that the Act was published in 1917.
And that is the last item that you really
need to
know about for the citation of an act in
its entirety.
You should be able to go look up Acts I
highly recommend That you go play
in the statutes at large on FDsys you'll
find a link for that on this web page.
Happy researching!
I'm Jenny Wondracek, one of your research
professors,
and we're here today to talk about
citations.
Specifically we're going to talk about how
you would cite an Act, in it's entirety.
I highly recommend that if you have not
done so, you watch the publication video
so
that you understand the process that a
statute
goes through as it's cited and as it's
published.
So let's take a quick look at a statute.
I have here the full citation, for the
Espionage Act.
Now this is the Act as it was published by
Congress, has not been chopped up and
arranged by subject.
So, let's break down the citation so you
understand what everything is.
First, we have the name of the Act.
So this could be the Espionage Act, the
Patriot Act, the Civil Rights Act, et
cetera.
Next we have the abbreviation for public
law.
So this tells you it's a public law, not a
private law
and that this is the first way that the
statute was published.
We go then to number 65, this tells you
that this Act was passed
by the 65th Congress, not the 64th or the
101st.
It's a way of dating the statute.
So then we go to 24.
As we discussed in the publication video,
public laws are numbered chronologically.
So this is the 24th law that was passed,
in the 65th term of Congress.
Then we move on to the citation to the
statutes at large.
These are in book format and can also be
found online.
So it's important to have this number if
you
want to look at the statute in its
entirety.
So 40 stands for the 40th volume of the
Statutes at large.
We know it's the Statutes at Large,
because it is abbreviated Stat.
Now there's also the British Statutes at
Large, so you have to make sure
that you're in the United States Statutes
at Large when you're looking up a law.
Next we have 217, this is a page number.
So if you go to volume 40 of the Statutes
at Large, page 217.
You'll find the espionage Act.
[BLANK_AUDIO]
This is the year of the act, so we know
that the Act was published in 1917.
And that is the last item that you really
need to
know about for the citation of an act in
its entirety.
You should be able to go look up Acts I
highly recommend That you go play
in the statutes at large on FDsys you'll
find a link for that on this web page.
Happy researching!
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