Id.

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This article is about Latin term. For the American cable channel with the ID. abbreviation, see Investigation Discovery.

Id. (Latin, short for "idem", "the same") is the term used in legal citations for the previously cited source (cf. ibid). It is also used in academic citations where it replaces the name of a repeated author.

[edit] Legal Example

United States v. Martinez-Fuerte, 428 U.S. 502 (1976)
Id. at 523.

The reference to U.S. v. Martinez-Fuerte is in both but that page is different.

[edit] Academic Example

Macgillivray, J. A. Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth. New York: Hill & Wand, 2000.
Id. Astral Labyrinth : Archaeology of the Greek Sky. Sutton Pub, 2003.