Law: Legal Citations

Note: In court documents (briefs, motions) and legal memoranda, a full case name is usually italicized or underlined. In academic legal writing (i.e., a law review article), full case names are generally not underlined or italicized

Copied from Georgetown Law Library (current as of 10/2021).

Place your cursor where you want the "section" symbol (§) to display. Try the following:

• Windows: Press and hold down the "Alt" key and use your keypad to type the numbers "21" (without quotation marks). This works only with a keypad, so you can't use this shortcut with computers that don't have one, such as laptops.
• Mac: Press and hold down the Option/Alt key and press 6. Release the "Alt" key to insert the symbol.
• In a Word document select the insert tab and then click the symbol tab.
• Although not an ideal solution, you could also try copying and pasting the symbol § from this page into your document and then adjusting the size to fit the rest of your font text