Bluebook Introduction: Books and Other Resources to Help with the Bluebook

Book.
Includes

• Overview of changes in the 20th Edition of The Bluebook
• Introduction to cite-checking
• The Bluebook trap : typeface conventions
• Citation form for cases
• Citation form for statutes, legislative materials, uniform acts, court rules, and constitutions
• Secondary sources -- Administrative and executive materials and court and litigation documents
• Electronic databases and the Internet
• Punctuation, quotations, omissions, alterations, and parentheticals
• Short forms, signals, related authority, and capitalization
• Putting it together
• The final review

Learning legal citation is one of the difficult (and sometimes admittedly annoying) tasks that students new to the law face. This book is designed to ease that task. It initially focuses on conventions that underlie all accepted forms and systems of legal citation. Building on that understanding and an explanation of the process of using citations in legal writing, the book then discusses and illustrates the particular rules of The Bluebook and the ALWD Citation Guide for citing cases, statutes, and all other major legal sources. Its unique appendices provide a useful reference resource to aid students in formulating citations.