Cal. Rules of Court, rule 1.200 · Chapter 7. Form and Format of Papers
Format of citations
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
Citations to cases and other authorities in all documents filed in the courts must be in the style established by either the California Style Manual or The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, at the option of the party filing the document. The same style must be used consistently throughout the document.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 1.200 adopted effective January 1, 2008.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/one/rule1_200
- Text hash
- sha256 b0ca1a2f38f0f4f5f330af6868183901a1a214ca6d2f77967e175c95e8fb8069
- Composed by
- compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph
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