Court Document abbreviations
(Table 8 of 17th Edition)

This table gives suggested abbreviations for citations of court documents and legal memoranda (not in the other forms of legal writing) for the words most commonly found in the titles of court documents. In some cases, it indicates that a word should not be abbreviated. Words of more than six letters not appearing on the list may also be abbreviated if the abbreviation selected is unambiguous. Unless it would be confusing to the reader, omit all articles and prepositions from any abbreviated title. Practitioners may also want to leave out additional words in document title if the document can be unambiguously identified without them (see practitioners' note P.7). Be sure to abbreviate documents consistently throughout a particular court document or legal memorandum.

Admission	Admis.
Admit	Admit
Affidavit	Aff.
Affirm	Affirm
Amended	Am.
Answer	Answer
Appeal	Appeal
Appellant	Appellant
Appellee	Appellee
Appendix	App. (except when citing to Joint Appendix -- see below)
Attach	Attach
Attachment	Attach.
Attorney [s]	Att'y [s]
Brief	Br.
Certiorari	Cert.
Compel	Compel
Complaint	Compl.
Counterclaim	Countercl.
Court	Ct.
Cross-claim	Cross-cl.
Declaration	Decl.
Defendant ['s]	Def. ['s]
Defendants [']	Defs. [']
Demurrer	Dem.
Deny [ing]	Den.
Deposition	Dep.
Discovery	Disc.
Dismiss	Dismiss
Document [s]	Doc., Docs.
Exhibit	Ex.
Grant	Grant
Hearing	Hr'g
Injuncion	Inj.
Interrogator[y, ies]	Interrog., Interrogs.
Joint Appendix	J.A.
Judgment	J.
Memorandum	Mem.
Minutes	Mins.
Motion	Mot.
Opinion	Op.
Opposition	Opp'n
Order	Order
Petition	Pet.
Petitioner	Pet'r
Plaintiff ['s]	Pl. ['s]
Plaintiffs [']	Pls. [']
Points and Authorities	P. & A.
Preliminary	Prelim.
Produc[e, tion]	Produc.
Quash	Quash
Reconsideration	Recons.
Record	R.
Rehearing	Reh'g
Reply	Reply
Reporter	Rep.
Request	Req.
Respondent	Resp't
Response	Resp.
Stay	Stay
Subpoena	Subpoena
Summary	Summ.
Support	Supp.
Suppress	Suppress
Temporary Restraining Order	T.R.O.
Testimony	Test.
Transcript	Tr.
Verifies Statement	V.S.