What Is the difference between a Table of Contents and Table of Authorities and how to mark citations? Thought you would never ask…
A Table of Contents (TOC) includes a list of all the headings and subheadings you use in your brief and the page number on which each appears.
A Table of Authorities (TOA) is a list of all cases and other materials you cite in your brief along with every page on which reference to each authority is made.
To create a TOA, you mark citations and Microsoft Word inserts a special TOA field in your document.
HOW TO MARK CITATIONS:
Select the first citation in your document.
For example, select “Forrester v. Craddock, 51 Wn. 2d 315 (1957).”
Press ALT+SHIFT+I.
In the Selected text box, edit the long citation as you want it to appear in the table of authorities.
1. In the Category box, click the category that applies to the citation.
2. In the Short citation box, edit the text so that it matches the short citation that you want Word to search for in the document.
For example, enter “Forrester v. Craddock.”
3. To mark a single citation, click Mark. To mark all long and short citations that match those displayed in the Mark Citation dialog box, click Mark All.
4. To find the next citation in the document, click Next Citation.
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HOW TO CREATE A TABLE OF AUTHORITIES:
1. Click where you want to insert the table of authorities.
2. To make sure that the document is paginated correctly, you need to hide field codes and hidden text. If the TA (Table of Authorities Entry) fields are visible, click Show/Hide in the Paragraph group on the Home tab.
3. On the References tab, in the Table of Authorities group, click Insert Table of Authorities.
4. In the Category box, click the category that you want to include in your table of authorities. To include all categories, click All.
5. Do one of the following:
1. To use one of the available designs, click a design in the Formats box.
2. To use a custom table of authorities layout, choose the options that you want.
6. Select any other table of authorities options that you want.
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HOW TO CREATE A TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. Put your cursor where you want to add the table of contents.
2. Go to References > Table of Contents. and choose an automatic style.
3. If you make changes to your document that affect the table of contents, update the table of contents by right clicking the table of contents and choosing Update Field.
Following these easy steps will have you creating TOC and TOA like a pro.
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