2016 New York Laws
CVP - Civil Practice Law & Rules
Article 55 - (Civil Practice Law & Rules) APPEALS GENERALLY
R5529 - Form of briefs and appendices.

Rule  5529.  Form of briefs and appendices.  (a) Form of reproduction;
  size; paper; binding.
1. Briefs and appendices  shall  be  reproduced  by  any  method  that
  produces  a  permanent, legible, black image on white paper. Paper shall
  be of a quality approved by the chief administrator of the courts.
2. Briefs and appendices shall be on white paper eleven  inches  along
  the bound edge by eight and one-half inches.
3.  An  appellate  court  may  by  rule applicable to practice therein
  prescribe the size of margins and type of briefs and appendices and  the
  line spacing and the length of briefs.
(b)  Numbering. Pages of briefs shall be numbered consecutively. Pages
  of appendices shall be separately numbered  consecutively,  each  number
  preceded by the letter A.
(c)  Page  headings.  The  subject matter of each page of the appendix
  shall be stated at the top thereof, except that in the  case  of  papers
  other  than  testimony, the subject matter of the paper may be stated at
  the top of the first page of each paper, together with the page  numbers
  of  the first and last pages thereof. In the case of testimony, the name
  of the witness, by whom he was  called  and  whether  the  testimony  is
  direct,  cross,  redirect  or recross examination shall be stated at the
  top of each page.
(d) Quotations. Asterisks or other appropriate means shall be used  to
  indicate  omissions  in  quoted excerpts. Reference shall be made to the
  source of the excerpts quoted. Where  an  excerpt  in  the  appendix  is
  testimony of a witness quoted from the record the beginning of each page
  of  the  transcript shall be indicated by parenthetical insertion of the
  transcript page number.
(e) Citations of decisions. New York decisions shall be cited from the
  official reports, if any. All other decisions shall be  cited  from  the
  official  reports, if any, and also from the National Reporter System if
  they are there reported. Decisions not reported  officially  or  in  the
  National Reporter System shall be cited from the most available source.
(f)  Questions  and  answers. The answer to a question in the appendix
  shall not begin a new paragraph.