Guide
Arizona Table of Citations: Civil and Criminal Briefs
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Arizona calls the appellate table a “table of citations.” For civil opening briefs, ARCAP 13(a)(2) requires alphabetically arranged and indexed cases, statutes and other authorities, with the brief pages on which each citation appears. Criminal appeals have their own governing provision, Arizona Rule of Criminal Procedure 31.10(a)(2), using the same table terminology. Do not label a criminal filing as governed by ARCAP merely because its table looks similar.
Open the Arizona table of citations generator, confirm the Arizona preset and heading, then review citations and pages before exporting to Word. The preset helps prepare a table; it does not format the entire brief or certify compliance with either rule set.
“A ‘table of citations’ that must alphabetically arrange and index the cases, statutes and other authorities cited in the brief, and which must refer to the pages of the brief on which each citation of authority appears.” — ARCAP 13(a)(2).
Start by identifying the filing, not just the state
ARCAP 13(a) places the table of contents first and the table of citations second, before the optional introduction. The answering brief follows Rule 13(a), with exceptions for certain narrative statements rather than the table. ARCAP 13(c) confines a civil reply to rebuttal. Division One's official checklist separately tells reply filers to list all legal authorities alphabetically and list each page on which an authority is cited. That checklist supplies practical reply-table guidance without pretending Rule 13(c) repeats the opening-brief list.
Criminal Rule 31.10(a)(2) separately requires the table for opening briefs, and (b) carries the opening requirements into answering briefs with narrative exceptions. Its reply provision, (c), addresses rebuttal scope. This guide's civil-reply checklist is not evidence of an identical criminal-reply checklist; consult the criminal rules and the court's instructions for that document. Trial memoranda, special-action petitions and petitions for review also require their own document-specific check.
| Filing or detail | Primary source | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Civil opening brief | ARCAP 13(a)(2) | Use Table of Citations after the contents; alphabetize and index cited legal authorities. |
| Civil answering brief | ARCAP 13(b)(1) | Keep the table even if omitting an adequate statement of facts or case. |
| Civil reply in Division One | Official Civil Appellate Brief Checklist, reply section | Prepare a reply-specific table showing each cited brief page. |
| Criminal opening/answering brief | Criminal Rule 31.10(a)(2), (b) | Use the criminal rule citation and its separate briefing requirements. |
| Arizona case citation | ARCAP 13(f); criminal Rule 31.10(g) | Check official reporter volume/page and available paragraph number; keep brief locators separate. |
Reporter pages, paragraph numbers and brief pages
A citation can contain a reporter page, a paragraph pinpoint and a year while the table adds a different number: the page of your brief containing that citation. Do not replace the official reporter page with the brief locator or mistake a record citation for a legal authority. ARCAP 13(d) governs references to the record, including time-coded references to recordings; those references have a different purpose.
Review citations in introductions, standards of review, footnotes and fee requests, not only the main argument. Keep different decisions with similar case names separate, and consolidate genuine full/short-form duplicates. The table clause provides no express passim threshold. Recording the actual brief pages is a sound review practice, not a claim that silence establishes a statewide passim ban. Citation extraction does not rewrite incomplete citations into Arizona style.
From Arizona PDF to editable Word table
- Export the completed draft. Use the full brief with its intended printed pagination. Keep the matching .docx if you want insertion into the editable brief.
- Confirm Arizona settings. Open the contextual generator link and check the actual court selection and Table of Citations heading. Detection or loading a sample can override the entry preset.
- Review every authority. Check official Arizona case citations, statutory sections, duplicate entries, short forms and each brief-page reference against the PDF. The official checklist recommends creating the table after the brief is completed.
- Choose the export route. PDF-only downloads an editable Word table. Matching Word plus a text-layer PDF can insert ordinary table text into Word. DOCX-only creates Word fields that Word for Windows builds and updates; it is not the same finished-table route.
- Re-export and check again. Insertion can shift pages. Review the final PDF, regenerate moved locators, and separately check brief form, certificates and electronic navigation. The generator does not add e-filing bookmarks or restyle citations.
Frequently asked
Should the heading say Table of Authorities or Table of Citations?
Both ARCAP 13(a)(2) and criminal Rule 31.10(a)(2) use Table of Citations. Confirm that heading when reviewing the Arizona table rather than retaining a generic template label.
Does the table cover statutes as well as cases?
Yes. The civil and criminal provisions identify cases, statutes and other authorities, with alphabetical arrangement and indexing plus brief-page references. Check legal authorities outside the argument section too.
Does a civil reply need its own table?
Division One's official civil checklist expressly includes one. Its reply section directs alphabetical legal authorities and each cited page. Generate from the reply itself, not the opening brief's authority list.
Can I cite ARCAP 13 for a criminal opening brief?
Use criminal Rule 31.10 for the criminal brief. Its table requirement is similar, but surrounding contents, record references and other protections belong to the criminal rule set.
Will the Arizona preset supply missing official reporter citations?
No. Review the underlying citations yourself under ARCAP 13(f) or criminal Rule 31.10(g). The tool extracts and organizes authorities and pages; it does not repair citation style or format the entire appellate document.
Official rules, checklist and access status
- Arizona Court Rules — ARCAP 13, Content of BriefsCourt-linked publisher portal; operative (a)–(f) read. Effective January 1, 2026; checked October 14, 2026. Direct access returned 403; full text read through a text-fetch proxy.govt.westlaw.com
- Arizona Court Rules — Criminal Rule 31.10Criminal opening, answering, reply-scope and case-citation provisions read through a text-fetch proxy. Effective January 1, 2026; checked October 14, 2026.govt.westlaw.com
- Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One — Civil Appellate Brief ChecklistBoth principal-brief and optional-reply sections read through a text-fetch proxy after direct 403. Retrieved PDF publication timestamp April 2, 2024; checked October 14, 2026.coa1.azcourts.gov
- Division One — Civil Appeals OverviewRead through a text-fetch proxy October 14, 2026; establishes court links to the publisher's ARCAP rules and official checklist. Consult current rule text and any case-specific order.azcourts.gov
Sources
- ARCAP 13govt.westlaw.com
- Criminal Rule 31.10govt.westlaw.com
- Division One Civil Appellate Brief Checklistcoa1.azcourts.gov
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