How do I cite a legal document in MLA format?

Question

Its a legal brief about the Ford Pinto case, please ask if you need more details.

Answer 1

Legal

Taken from The Bluebook, Eighteenth Edition. Simplified adaptations.

The standard format for articles is:

[author’s full name], [title of article in italics], [journal volume no.] [abbreviation of journal in large and small caps] [starting page of article] [date of pub. in parens], [electronic availability note].

Citations to articles by student authors require a “designation” indicator (note, comment, book note, etc.) preceding the title.

Book review citations only require “book review” as a concluding parenthetical, so long as the title of the book review matches the name of the book, which is the case with almost all the reviews in Wilson’s database, Index to Legal Periodicals.

Examples for the citing of Journals and Book Reviews

Journal – Non-Student Author

Susan N. Herman, The USA PATRIOT Act and the Submajoritarian Fourth Amendment, 41 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 67 (2006), available at WilsonWeb, Accession Number 200634903057003.

Journal – Student Author

James E. Tysse, Note, The Right to an “Imperfect” Trial—Amnesia, Malingering, and Competency to Stand Trial, 32 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. 353 (2005), available at WilsonWeb, Accession Number 200500300117011.

Book Review – Non-Student Author

Stuart Hetherington, Places of Refuge for Ships, 37 J. MAR. L. & COM. 453 (2006) (book review), available at WilsonWeb, Accession Number 200618202262008.

Book Review – Student Author

Lara Katz, Book Note, Global City Blues, 45 NAT. RESOURCES J. 1124 (2005) (book review), available at WilsonWeb, Accession Number 200528801537011.

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Answer 2

Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co., 119 Cal.App.3d 757 (1981).

Underline "Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co.

If you cite a particular page, put the page number after 757

(e.g. 757, 763)