Editing Citation signal (section)

==={{anchor|Order of authorities within each signal}}Order of authorities===
Authorities in a signal are separated by semicolons. If an authority is more helpful or authoritative than others cited in a signal, it should precede them. Otherwise, authorities are cited in the following order:
*Constitutions and other foundation documents
#Federal
#State (alphabetically by name)
#Foreign (alphabetically by jurisdiction)
#Foundation documents of the United Nations, the League of Nations and the European Union (in that order). Constitutions of the same jurisdiction are cited in reverse chronological order.
*Statutes
#Federal: Statutes in U.S.C., U.S.C.A., or U.S.C.S.; other statutes currently in force, by reverse chronological order of enactment; rules of evidence and procedure and repealed statutes (by reverse chronological order of enactment)
#State (alphabetically by state): Statutes in the current code, by order in the code; statutes in force but not in the current code, by order in the code; rules of evidence and procedure, and repealed statutes (by reverse chronological order of enactment)
#Foreign (alphabetically by jurisdiction): Codes or statutes in the current code, by order in the code; statutes in force but not in the current code, by reverse chronological order of enactment, and repealed statutes (by reverse chronological order of enactment)
#Treaties and other international agreements, other than the foundation documents of the [[United Nations|UN]], [[League of Nations]], and the [[European Union|EU]]: cite in reverse chronological order.
*Cases: Cases decided by the same court are arranged in reverse chronological order; all U.S. circuit courts of appeals are treated as one court, and all federal district courts are treated as one court. Cite cases in the following order, in the order of federal, state, foreign, and international:
#Federal:
##Supreme Court
##Court of Appeals, Emergency Court of Appeals and Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals
##Court of Claims, Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and bankruptcy appeals panels
##District courts, Judicial Panel on [[Multidistrict Litigation]] and Court of International Trade 
##District bankruptcy courts and the Railroad Reorganization Court
##Court of Federal Claims, Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and Tax Court
##Administrative agencies, alphabetically by agency
#State
##Courts, alphabetically by state and then by rank within each state
##Agencies, alphabetically by state and then alphabetically by agency within states
#Foreign
##Courts, alphabetically by jurisdiction and then by rank within each jurisdiction
##Agencies, alphabetically by jurisdiction and then alphabetically by agency within each jurisdiction
#International
##International Court of Justice, Permanent Court of International Justice
##Other international tribunals and arbitration panels, alphabetically by name
*Legislative materials: Cite in the following order: bills and resolutions, committee hearings, reports, documents, and committee prints, floor debates (in reverse chronological order)
*Administrative and executive materials: Cite in the following order: federal (Executive Orders, current Treasury Regulations, other regulations in force, proposed rules not in force, repealed materials), state (alphabetically by state) and foreign (alphabetically by jurisdiction)
*Resolutions, decisions, and regulations of intergovernmental organizations: Cite in the following order: [[United Nations|UN]] and [[League of Nations]] ([[United Nations General Assembly|General Assembly]], then [[United Nations Security Council|Security Council]], then other organs in alphabetical order) and other organizations (alphabetically by name of organization)
*Records, briefs, and petitions, cited in that order
*Secondary materials: Cite in the following order: uniform codes, model codes and restatements (in reverse chronological order by category); books and pamphlets, works in journals, book reviews not written by students, student-written law-review materials, annotations, magazine and newspaper articles, working papers, unpublished materials and electronic sources (including Internet sources). For all secondary sources except codes and restatements, cite alphabetically by last name of author; if none, by first word of title.
*Cross-references to the author's own material in text or footnotes; for example: See Arnold v. Runnels, 421 F.3d 859, 866 n. 8 (9th Cir.2005); ''United States v. Soliz'', 129 F.3d 499, 504 n. 3 (1997), overruled on other grounds by ''United States v. Johnson'', 256 F.3d 895 (9th Cir.2001) (en banc) (per curiam); ''Evans v. Demosthenes'', 98 F.3d 1174, 1176 (9th Cir.1996).<ref name="legalbluebook.com"/>