CITATION OF

SECONDARY SOURCES:

COMMENTARIES,

ANNOTATIONS

AND OTHERS

Partial Requirement on Legal Research

For The 1st

Semester, School Year 2013-2014

Submitted by:

JD 1-2

Group 4

Allayban, Ma. Emiliana

Caguete, Alyssa Marie

Capistrano, Jayson

Gaspi, Mary Joyce

Submitted to:

Atty. Benjamin Samson

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

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

EXAMPLE:

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

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

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

c. With Editor or Translator

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

EXAMPLE:

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

e. More Than Two Authors

EXAMPLE:

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

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

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

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

f. Short Citation and Subsequent Citations:

EXAMPLE:

2. Annotations

EXAMPLE:

{AUTHOR}, Annotation, {TITLE

Short Citation and Subsequent Citations:

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

{first page}, {cited page}

3. Journal Articles

EXAMPLE:

Note: For short citations and subsequent citations:

4. Periodicals

a. Magazine

EXAMPLE:

{AUTHOR}, {TITLE} {volume number

{AUTHOR}, {TITLE} {NAME OF MAGAZINE

and subsequent citations:

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

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

{first page}, {cited page} ({year}).

{first page of the article}.

b. Newspaper Article

EXAMPLE:

5. Internet Sources

EXAMPLE:

{Author}, {Headline}, {ABBREVIATION OF NEWSPAPER

{Author if available}, {Title},

}, {ABBREVIATION OF NEWSPAPER}, {date of articlepage of the article}.

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

, {date of article}, at {first

{Internet address or website}, (last accessed

6. Interviews

7. Theses

SOURCES:

Footnoting and Legal Citation: Following the Blue Book Uniform System

Philippine Law Journal Manual of Citation and Style