Research Guides: Guide to Legal Writing and Style: Formatting your Appellate Brief

Preparing Your Document and Creating the TOC

Add/Edit Page Numbers
How to break your document into sections that can be numbered separately.
Preparing your document
Guide to formatting an appellate brief using MS Word.
Creating your TOC
Creating and applying styles for your table of contents.

Creating your TOA
How to create a TOA from the Office support website. For cases, take out the pinpoint page that appears in the selected text box because you don't want it to appear in the table of authorities. Editing in the selected text box has no effect on the citation that appears in your paper, it only affects the citation as it appears in the TOA.
Lexis for Microsoft Office
Includes citation formatting tools that:
Shepardize® your citations to ensure they are good law.
Check and correct citation formats as easily as spell checking.
Automatically confirm the accuracy of your quotation formats.
Create and update your Table of Authorities instantly.
Table of Authorities – The Ultimate Guide
This is a more in depth guide to creating a TOA

Formatting your Appellate Brief - Mac
This video details how you can format headings, create a Table of Contents, create a Table of Authorities, and insert pagination. You will need to sign in using your Pace Portal username and password to view the video.
Formatting your Appellate Brief - Windows
This video details how you can format headings, create a Table of Contents, create a Table of Authorities, and insert pagination. You will need to sign in using your Pace Portal username and password to view the video.
How to Format an Appellate Brief
Includes short videos.