Skip to Main Content

Criminal Justice and Law: Citation Help

This guide will cover Criminal Justice, Law, and Police Science resources.

Citation Styles

Please see the MVCC Libraries "How-To: Cite Sources" guide for more information:

Criminal Justice and Law Citation Styles

MLA and APA styles of citation incorporate the rules of the Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation when referencing case law and statutory law. The following are common examples of these sources of law retrieved from LexisNexis Academic database:

Citing case law:

MLA
Case title, U.S. Reports citation, page numbers, docket number, name of the court, year of decision, Internet address, and date of accessing the site

Fullilove v. Klutznick. 448 U.S. 448. 448-554. No. 78-1007. US Supreme Court. 1980. Online. LexisNexis® Academic. (11 Feb. 2010).

APA
Case title, U.S. Reports citation, year of decision, and Internet address.

Fullilove v. Klutznick, 448 U.S. 448 (1980) [Online] Retrieved from http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic.

Helpful Web Resources

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Except where otherwise noted, the content in these guides by Mohawk Valley Community College Libraries is licensed under CC BY NC SA 4.0. This openly licensed content allows others to cite, share, or modify this content non-commercially, with credit to MVCC Libraries.

When reusing or adapting this content, include this statement in the new document: This content was originally created by Mohawk Valley Community College Libraries and shared with a CC BY NC SA 4.0 license.

Mohawk Valley Community College Libraries - 1101 Sherman Drive, Utica, NY, 13501- P. 315.792.5561