CITATION OF SECONDARY SOURCES: COMMENTARIES, ANNOTATIONS AND OTHERS

Partial Requirement on Legal Research

For The 1st Semester, School Year 2013-2014

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INTRODUCTION: What is an annotation?

An annotation, in legal terms, is a note, summary, or commentary on some section of a book or a statute that is intended to explain or illustrate its meaning. An annotation serves as a brief summary of the law and the facts of a case and demonstrates how a particular law enacted by Congress or a state legislature is interpreted and applied. Annotations usually follow the text of the statute they interpret in annotated statutes.

How to cite the following?

1. Books and Treatise

{AUTHOR}, {TITLE} {cited page} ({year} or {edition number} {year} or {year of edition}).
a. General Rule

EXAMPLES: RUBEN F. BALANE, JOTTINGS IN CIVIL LAW: SUCCESSION 53 (2d ed. 2002). JOAQUIN G. BERNAS, S.J., THE 1987 CONSTITUTION OF THE REPBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES: A COMMENTARY 1195 (2003 ed.). SAMUEL WILLISTON, A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF CONTRACTS, ADMINISTRATIVE LAW TREATISE 120-21 (1990).

b. Multi-volume work

{volume number} {AUTHOR}, {TITLE} {cited page} ({year} or {edition number} {year} or {year of edition}).

EXAMPLE: 4 OSCAR B. HERRERA, REMEDIAL LAW 150 (2001 ed.).

c. With Editor or Translator

{AUTHOR}, {TITLE} {cited page} ({Editor or translator} {ed(s.) or trans.}, {year}).

EXAMPLES: ADAMS SMITH, THE WEALTH OF THE NATIONS 30-41 (Edwin Cananan ed., 2000). WOMEN AND LANGUAGE IN LITERATURE AND SOCIETY 284-99 (Ruth Broker, et al.,eds., 1980).

d. Two Authors

{AUTHOR 1} & {AUTHOR 2}, {TITLE} {cited page} ({year} or {edition number} {year} or {year of edition}).

EXAMPLE: JUSTICE JOSE VITUG & JUDGE ERNESTO D. ACOSTA, TAX LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE 150 (2d ed. 2000).

e. More Than Two Authors

{AUTHOR 1} ET AL., {TITLE} {cited page} ({year} or {edition number} {year} or {year of edition}).

EXAMPLE: JOSUE N. BELLOSILLO, ET AL., OMNIBUS ELECTION CODE 181 (2007).

f.

Short Citation and Subsequent Citations:

EXAMPLE:

2. Annotations

{AUTHOR}, Annotation, {TITLE} {volume number} {Reporter} {first page}, {cited page} ({year}).

EXAMPLE:

3. Journal Articles

{AUTHOR}, {TITLE} {volume volume number number} {JOURNAL} {first page}, {cited page} ({year}).

EXAMPLE:

Note: For short citations and subsequent citations:

4. Periodicals a. Magazine

{AUTHOR}, {TITLE} {NAME OF MAGAZINE MAGAZINE}, {date}, at {first page of the article}. article}

EXAMPLE:

b. Newspaper Article

{Author}, {Headline}, {ABBREVIATION OF NEWSPAPER NEWSPAPER}, , {date of article}, article at {first page of the article}.

EXAMPLE:

5. Internet Sources

{Author if available}, {Title}, Title}, available at {Internet address or website}, (last accessed {date}).

EXAMPLE:

6. Interviews

7. Theses

SOURCES: Footnoting and Legal Citation: Following the Blue Book Uniform System Philippine Law Journal Manual of Citation and Style