1. An Overview of the Fifth Edition

2. Overall Organization  Part 1, Introductory Material  Part 2, Citation Basics  Part 3, Citing Specific Sources  Part 4, Electronic Sources  Part 5, Incorporating Citations into Documents  Part 6, Quotations  Part 7, Appendices

3. Fewer Rules & Appendices  Number of rules reduced from 49 to 40  Primary authorities treated consistently  Secondary source groupings  Seven appendices

4. Appendices  Appendix 1: Primary Sources by Jurisdiction  Appendix 2: Local Court Citation Rules  Appendix 3: General Abbreviations  Appendix 4: Court Abbreviations  Appendix 5: Periodical Abbreviations  Appendix 6: Federal Taxation Materials  Appendix 7: Federal Agencies

5. A Single Set of Rules  Maintains focus on formatting for practice-based documents  But where scholarly writing requires different formatting or other constraints, incorporates relevant subsections and examples into same source rule

6. Academic Footnote Formats  Rules specially marked to prevent user confusion with practice-based formats  Rules included within specific source rules  Fast Formats examples

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9. Special Tools for the User  Expanded use of spacing triangles   Official source stars  (Appendix 1)  Non-consecutively paginated periodical stars  (Appendix 5)

10. Templates & Illustrations  Full citation format template and illustration Identifies components Sets out representative citation, with component labels, spacing triangles

11. Fast Formats  Quick reference guides for specific sources  Expanded to include examples of academic footnote formats, short-form citations  List on inside cover

12. Sidebars and Charts  Sidebars furnish helpful contextual or background information relevant for specific sources  Charts collect frequently used terms, abbreviations, and similar materials with specific source rules

13. Examples  Updated  Expanded  Revised

14. Appendix 1: Jurisdictional tables of primary authorities

15. Appendix 2: Local rules

16. Teacher’s Manual  Full description of changes in fifth edition  Teaching notes for various sources  PowerPoint slide presentations  Appendices with correlation tables ALWD 4th edition  ALWD 5th edition ALWD  Bluebook Bluebook  ALWD ALWD Guide to Legal Citation

17. Includes Online Exercises  The ALWD Online Companion Brooke Bowman Jessica Clark Cassandra Hill Erin Karsman Samantha Moppett