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McGill Style Guide (10th ed).

Regulations

Follow the order of information, punctuation, and capitalization in the examples below. See section 2.5 of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (10th ed.) for complete rules on citing regulations.

Title in Italics, Statutory Orders and Regulations, Regulation Number/Year, Pinpoint.

Canada

Canadian Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, SOR/86-304, s 5.3.

Migratory Birds Regulations, CRC, c 1035, s 4 (1978).

NOTE: See Appendix A-1 for jurisdiction abbreviations. In the above example, CRC refers to "Consolidated Regulations of Canada and SOR "Statutory Orders and Regulations".

Provinces and Territories

Delegation of Regulation-Making Authorities, O Reg 625/20, s 1.

Medicine, RRO 1990, Reg 548, S 4.

Your professor may have different citing expectations than library staff. Always check at the beginning of term and before starting assignments that the citing rules you are using are appropriate for your class.

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