2DCA Formatting Requirements and Guidelines

California Rules of Court rule 8.74(a) and (b) require documents filed electronically with the court to be in text-searchable PDF format, with a blank upper-right corner on the cover page, page numbers beginning with the first page, electronic bookmarks to each heading, subheading and component of the document, and a file size of 25 megabytes or less. Documents with multiple files must include a master chronological and alphabetical index and cover page for each file. Privacy protection must be followed, and font style, size, spacing, margins, and alignment must be used. Filers are encouraged to use "curly" quotation marks and apostrophes, convert documents to PDF format in a word processing program, compile documents with E-Copies, and hyperlink briefs and writs to legal citations and appendices or exhibits.