EC Library Guide on EU law: Citing and Referencing
Citing and referencing
Citing EU law
- European Legislation Identifier (ELI) | EUR-Lex
The European Legislation Identifier (ELI) is a system to make legislation available online in a standardised format, so that it can be accessed, exchanged and reused across borders.
- Method of citing the case-law | Court of Justice of the Euroepan Union
Method of citing the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the basis of the ECLI (European Case-Law Identifier).
- Ref2Link | Interoperable Europe Portal, European Commission
Ref2Link automates the detection of references and generates hyperlinks based on dynamic and customisable rules. You can use Ref2Link as a standalone tool or as a building block in IT systems such as LEOS. Ref2Link supports out-of-the-box multilingual detection of EU legal instruments. It enforces the European Legislation Identifier and European Case Law Identifier standards and other references if needed.
Other citing and referencing guides
- Interinstitutional style guide [website] | Publications Office of the European Union
The Interinstitutional Style Guide is the reference tool for those involved in document production in the European Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies. This internal tool, first published in 1997 in 11 languages and now available in each of the 24 official EU languages, contains uniform style rules and conventions that have been drafted based on cooperation between the various linguistic services of the institutions, with the aim of presenting a consistent identity for EU publications. Its constantly updated and improved content serves authors, translators, lawyer-linguists, terminologists, editors and proofreaders. See in particular the section 5.9.4. Bibliographic references.
- Data citation: A guide to best practice
Publications Office of the European Union, 2022.
The publication “Data citation : a guide to best practice” is a practical guide that includes recommendations and best practices on how to cite data. It is divided in 3 parts: part 1 - issues in data citation, general recommendations; part 2 - recommendations on specific formats and other elements for data citation and part 3 - other information (e.g. specific differences between recommendations).