A Citation's level in the hierarchy is determined by the Citations that fall below it. In the above example you will notice that Section (A) is at the highest level of the hierarchy. Subsequent Sections (B, C, etc.) will be placed at the same level. The paragraphs (A) ¶ 1 and (A) ¶ 2 are at the next level in the hierarchy, as they are a part of Section (A).

Bullets and numbered citations that are preceded by a stub will be placed at the level below the stub.
Some citations will have especially complicated referencing, with a mixture of numbers, letters, capital letters, lower-case letters, and even Roman numerals! Follow the same conventions as above when working with these. (i.e. Section 1 (A) IV(a) will be placed at the level below Section 1 (A) IV, which will be placed at the same level as Section 1 (A) III, etc...)

Order mandates that are part of the same citation by Citation ID in ascending order. As you will see in the example below, Bullets 4 and 5 have multiple mandates, and are positioned in numerical order with the higher Citation ID below the lower Citation IDs.

When all Citations are in place, click Submit, and you will be asked if you want to finish the Citation Hierarchy.

*Hint – Hit Submit regularly as you work, particularly in larger documents. This will save the changes that you have made in case of a technical error. Trust me, you do not want to spend hours organizing a hierarchy only to learn that you've lost all of your work because the network went down!

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