New on CTAN: biblatex-accursius
Lawyers can use LaTeX too. The biblatex-accursius style is designed for Italian jurists. On the one hand, it offers a citation style similar to the most popular one in Italian legal scholarship. On the other hand, and more importantly, it creates new fields and lists specifically for citing legal materials, such as laws, soft law, treaties and case law. This style has already been used in a law thesis. In fact, it was created to comply with the specific guidelines of the Law School and of the supervisor. This publication is to share this work with others, instead of keeping it hidden. Most importantly, it allows the community to help correct and improve it.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-accursius The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-accursius/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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biblatex-accursius – Citing features for Italian jurists
This style is primarily aimed at Italian legal jurists and provides them with the ability to cite legal materials, such as legislative acts, regulations, soft law, treaties and case law. Additionally, the style codifies the most prevalent citation practices amongst Italian legal scholars.
Specifically, with regard to the citation of legal materials, this style, instead of developing the entry types @jurisdiction, @legal, and @legislation, creates a new one: @itprov, which can describe a wide range of legal sources. Furthermore, it creates a second new entry type: @notetoprov, which is used specifically to cite so-called “note a sentenza” (notes to judgement), which closely mirrors @itprov, but is literature and, therefore, is intended to have the same treatment as standard entry types.
The citation commands are the standard ones.
The @itprov entry type comprises the list institution to indicate which authority adopted the cited act; the kindprov, nprov, provtitle (or titleparties) fields to indicate the minimal ‘ID’ of the act and many others. Finally, the entry type allows to specify where the cited act was consulted, whether from an official bulletin (the ofbull field), an official portal or a private database (the ofportal field), or a journal or collection.
| Package | biblatex-accursius |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Copyright | 2024 Francesco Contini |
| Maintainer | Francesco Contini |