A current awareness resource for the students and faculty members in the Criminology department.
New: COAL - The Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide
Published by Yolanda Koscielski Good news! There is now an open access alternative to the traditional Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation: The Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide (COAL)
. This guide was launched in June 2024.
About the guide: "The COAL Citation Guide originated with two primary drivers: the belief that we could create a citation guide that will better meet the needs of Canadian legal writers and researchers and the goal of creating a citation guide that will be accessible to everyone, via an open access publishing model."
Please note that COAL is a citation guide, "not a style guide and does not provide instructions on formatting or writing style. Writers should consult instructions provided by the relevant court, agency, school, journal, or other organization for rules on formatting and writing style".
More information on legal citation can be found on the guide, Citing & writing: Legal information.