Understanding and Mastering The Bluebook: A Guide for Students and Practitioners

Keeping Up to Date
Acknowledgments
1 Getting Started
	A. Introduction to Legal Citation and The Bluebook
		1. The Purpose of Legal Citation
		2. Bluebook Organization
	B. Practitioners' Style and Local Rules
		1. Typeface Conventions: Practitioners' Style
		2. Introduction to Local Rules
	C. When to Cite
	D. Citation Sentences, Clauses, and Embedded Citations
		1. Citation Sentences
		2. Citation Clauses
		3. Embedded Citations
	E. Pinpoint Citations
		1. Pages
		2. Sections and Subsections
		3. Paragraphs
		4. Lines
		5. Footnotes
		6. Endnotes
		7. Supplements
	F. Spacing Rules for Citation Abbreviations
	G. Introduction to Short Form Citations
		1. Id.
		2. Supra
		3. Alternate Short Forms
2 Cases
	A. Basic Case Citation Rules
		1. Case Name
		2. Source Information
		3. Court
		4. Year
	B. Special Rules for Case Names
		1. Businesses and Organizations
		2. Governmental Parties (Geographical Terms)
		3. Alternate Names
		4. Procedural and Descriptive Phrases
		5. Unions
		6. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
	C. Short Form Case Citations
		1. Id.
		2. Alternate Short Form
	D. Parallel Citations
	E. Public Domain Citations
	F. Parenthetical Information
		1. Dissents and Concurrences
		2. Quoting or Citing Parentheticals
		3. Weight of Authority
	G. Subsequent History
	H. Ordering Multiple Additions to Citations
3 Statutes
	A. Federal and State Statutes
		1. Form
		2. Basic Statutory Citations
		3. Code Name
		4. Titles, Chapters, and Section Numbers
		5. Publisher
		6. Year of Code
	B. Additional Information in Statutory Citations
		1. Supplements
		2. Subject Matter Codes
		3. Named Statutes
	C. Short Forms: Statutes
		1. Id.
		2. Alternate Short Form
4 Constitutions
	A. Basic Citation Forms
	B. Short Form: Constitutions
5 Regulations
	A. Federal Administrative Regulations
	B. State Administrative Regulations
	C. Internal Revenue Code
	D. Treasury Regulations
6 Procedural and Court Rules
	A. Rules of Procedure and Evidence
		1. Federal Rules of Procedure and Evidence
		2. State Rules of Procedure and Evidence
	B. Rules of Court
		1. Federal Rules of Court
		2. State Rules of Court
	C. Short Forms: Rules
7 Secondary Sources
	A. Treatises and Books
		1. Author's Full Name
		2. Book Title
		3. Pinpoint Page, Section, or Volume
		4. Publication Information
		5. Year
		6. Short Forms: Treatises and Books
	B. Periodicals (Law Reviews and Journals)
		1. Author's Full Name
		2. Article Title
		3. Volume
		4. Periodical Name
		5. Beginning Page
		6. Pinpoint Page(s)
		7. Year
		Short Forms: Periodicals
	C. Restatements
		Short Forms: Restatements
	D. Legal Dictionaries
		Short Forms: Dictionaries
	E. American Law Reports (A.L.R.) Annotations
		Short Forms: A.L.R. Annotations
	F. Legal Encyclopedias
		Short Forms: Encyclopedias
8 Litigation Documents and Record Citations
	A. Litigation Documents and Appellate Record
		1. Document Title
		2. Pinpoint Citations
	B. Short Forms: Litigation and Record Citations
	C. Enclosing Citations in Parentheses
9 Strings, Signals, and Explanatory Parentheticals
	A. String Citations
		1. String Basics
		2. Short Forms in String Citations
	B. Signals
		1. Signal Basics
		2. Using Multiple Signals in a Single String
		3. Using Short Forms with Signals
	C. Explanatory Parentheticals
10 Quotations
	A. Form of Quotations
		1. Block Quotations
		2. Short Quotations
	B. Alterations
	C. Omissions
11 Capitalization
	A. Capitalization Basics
	B. Court Documents and Proceedings
		1. Courts
		2. Parties to a Legal Action
		3. Titles of Court Documents
		4. Court Proceedings
		5. Judges
12 Numbers, Numerals, Ordinals, and Symbols
	A. Numbers and Numerals
	B. Ordinals
	C. Symbols
13 Electronic Sources
	A. Cases
		1. Commercial Databases: Published Decisions
		2. Commercial Databases: Unpublished Decisions
		3. Authenticated or Official Decisions
	B. Statutes
		1. Commercial Databases
		2. Authenticated or Official Versions
		3. Short Forms
		4. Practitioners' Alternate Form (Optional)
	C. Constitutions
	D. Regulations
	E. Procedural and Court Rules
	F. Secondary Sources
		1. Treatises and Books
		2. Periodicals
		3. Restatements
		4. Dictionaries
		5. A.L.R. Annotations
		6. Encyclopedias
Appendix: Citing Cases from Commercial Databases
Index of Bluebook Rules
Subject Index