Iowa Table of Authorities: All Pages and Rule 6.903

The requirement is all pages, not passim

List every citation page, including citations in footnotes and nonargument sections. If an authority appears on hypothetical pages 8, 12, 13 and 22, an explicit list such as 8, 12–13, 22 preserves the locations. A range is useful only when the authority actually occurs on every page in that range. Do not turn scattered pages into one continuous range.

Do not treat the rule as permission to replace those references with passim. A word meaning ‘throughout’ does not identify all the pages. The cited requirement expressly calls for all pages; retain explicit references rather than importing another jurisdiction’s convention. Nor is the table a place to add authorities that never appear in the brief.

Citation forms and three different kinds of pages

Rule 6.904(2)(a) requires a Bluebook-type case citation including party names, reporter volume and page, a pinpoint supporting the proposition, issuing court and year. Iowa cases are cited to the North Western Reporter unless not reported there, in which case the official reporter is used. Unpublished decisions have separate docket-number and electronic-database requirements. Review the complete citation before consolidating a short form with its full entry.

Rule 6.904(2)(b) supplies forms such as Iowa R. App. P., Iowa R. Civ. P. and Iowa R. Evid.; other court rules use Iowa Ct. R. Under (2)(c), code citations include section and date, while treatises include edition and section or page. Those identifying details belong in the citation. The table’s right-hand numbers instead locate that citation in your brief. Record citations under Rule 6.904(4), including docket number, document title, record page and filing date, serve a third purpose and should not become authorities-table page references.

Keep the PDF and printed numbering aligned

Iowa expressly prohibits Roman-numeral page numbering in briefs. The cover is page one, even if a familiar template starts its preliminary tables at i. Any blank page remains part of the consecutive sequence, and displayed page numbers must match the electronic document’s digital page numbers. Fix the underlying Word pagination before extracting the table.

The table is excluded from the applicable word, line or handwritten-page calculation under Rule 6.903(1)(i), but it still occupies numbered pages. That distinction matters: adding a three-page table does not consume three counted argument pages, yet it moves later citation locations by three unless the layout already reserved that space.