Law full level bibItem capture: Capturing parenthetical citations and incomplete references
In Law content requiring full level bibItem capture, capture abbreviated or incomplete references using the bibItem element. Research the missing information in order to complete the attributes for the bibItem element.
If a legal reference is incomplete in the text then you must identify and capture all required components as attributes on the bibItem element.
The following sources can help to identify the full title and citation for the reference:
- The bibliography (of a book or journal article)
- For law monographs, looseleafs and yearbooks: the bibliography
- For law monographs, looseleafs and yearbooks: the tables of cases and legislation in the prelims of the book
- For case reports: the list of cases and legislation cited in the headnote of the case report
- The immediate context (e.g. references in a form such as "in the case of Smith", "section 28 of the Act")
- NYU School of Law Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations
Example captures
The incomplete reference has only the author surname, and a short version of the title. But it has an additional component that the full reference does not, a page number.
Incomplete reference in a footnote
Complete reference in a bibliography
The attributes of bibItem are the same in both references, except for the additional page attribute required for the footnote reference.
Example: the footnote reference capture
<bibItem class="book" author="Smith, George" title="As the World Turns" place="New York" publisher="Random House" page="165"> Smith, World Turns, p.165 </bibItem>
Example: the bibliography reference capture
<bibItem class="book" author="Smith, George" title="As the World Turns" place="New York" publisher="Random House"> Smith, George. As the World Turns (New York: Random House)
</bibItem>