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The LexisNexis Academic Product Wiki will help you make the most of the content and features in LexisNexis Academic. It includes Academic Help guides showing you how to use the product, as well as Research Help guides with advice on doing research in news, business, industry, legal, and biographical materials.

Use the Quick Links at left to go to the home page for a specific product or to browse the the wiki. See the Research Help link for a list of topical research guides, and the Article Index link for a complete list of all articles on the wiki.

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Do you need help with Legal Citations?

Did you ever try to look up a case by legal citation and get an error message in return? Do you ever get confused just thinking about legal citation format? We understand. Check out our new wiki article about Legal Citation Formats. The article contains various examples of legal citation formats for most jurisdictions and types of legal materials. These examples come from The BlueBook: A Uniform System of Citation. For more information on Legal Citation, check out Cornell Law's Basic Legal Citation site.

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-During your legal research, did you ever look at a case within LexisNexis Academic and see a red icon at the top that looks like a stop sign? Maybe a yellow triangle? These are Shepard's icons from the Shepard's® Citations service. These icons are there to show the previous treatment of the case - in other words, whether or not the case is still "good law." If the case has been overruled, it is considered "bad law" and may no longer be cited as a legal precedent. The Shepard's  Citations service also provides a report that shows every opinion where that case has been referenced.
+Did you ever try to look up a case by legal citation and get an error message in return? Do you ever get confused just thinking about legal citation format? We understand. Check out our new wiki article about [[Legal Citation Formats]]. The article contains various examples of legal citation formats for most jurisdictions and types of legal materials. These examples come from The BlueBook: A Uniform System of Citation. For more information on Legal Citation, check out Cornell Law's [http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/ Basic Legal Citation] site.
-If you  need help understanding and using Shepard's Citations, take a look at our [[Shepard's Citations]] wiki article. The article shows you how to "Shepardize" a case, how to read the report, and gives you an icon key, as seen on the left. Happy Shepardizing!
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