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Legal Citation with the Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide (the COAL Guide)

This guide provides an introduction to legal citation with the COAL guide.

Citing Statutes and Regulations

Chapter 5 of COAL covers the citation of legislative documents such as statutes and regulations. This chapter of our guide provides an introduction to citing these common documents.

See the full chapter in COAL for more detailed information and for citing other types of legislation such as constitutional statutes (5.2), bills (5.3), orders in council (5.5), codes of professional conduct (5.6), and municipal by-laws (5.7).