The COAL Citation Guide originated with two primary drivers: the belief that we could create a citation guide that will better meet the needs of Canadian legal writers and researchers and the goal of creating a citation guide that will be accessible to everyone, via an open access publishing model.
We had a forerunner that provided the nucleus of this guide, the University of British Columbia Law Library Legal Citation Guide, which paved the way for the creation of this guide and demonstrated the feasibility of a potentially huge project. Thank you.