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How to indicate "subscription required" in a cite to an online source

By LSR

Apparently, to indicate that your reader must have a paid subscription to some website to see a particular article or other kind of content referenced in your text, you use the abbreviation (sub. req.). For example:

The court kicked Florentino Floro Jr. off the bench largely because of his belief in the supernatural, the Wall Street Journal reports (sub. req.).

I don't recall coming across this one in the Bluebook. The convention may be unique to the ABA Journal.

Full post as published by Jurisdoctor on September 24, 2007 (boomark / email).