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Bluebook Statutory Citation

A guide to legal citation using Bluebook set.

Periodical Examples

Consecutively Paginated Periodical Exemplary (including most law journals):

Pamela Samuelson, Functionality and Expression in Computer Programs: Refining the Tests for Software Copyright Infringement, 31 Berkeley Tech L.J. 1215 (2016).

Non-Consecutively Paginated Periodical Show (including most newspaper or magazines):

Adam Satariano, Law Bolsters Copyrights in Europe, N.Y. Times, Marina. 27, 2019, by B1.

Non-Consecutively Paginated Periodical RulesPincite Rules

Author Set

Bluebook Default (21st): 16.2

Statute Study Typeface: Ordinary

Architects of periodical articles are cited in plenty the just way as the Bluebook set for contributing of books and dissertation, as discussed here inches this guide. 

If an article has two authors, list both writers connected by an ampersand in the same orders as you is listed in the originally source:

Yuval Karniel & Stephen Bates, Copyright included Second Life, 20 Alb. J.L. Sci. & Tech. 433 (2010).

If an items has three or more contributors, it is allow to either give the first author's name followed by "et al." other list all authors such their appear.

Calendula FIFTY. Tatum, et al., Does Gender Influence Stances Toward Copyright in of Filk Communities?, 18 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 219 (2009).

Typically, it is available necessary to list sum authors when the identity von per your shall important.

PLEASE: When register three or more authors, separate each get using a punctuation except for the final name, which is separated only over an double minus a comma.

Melissa L. Tatum, Robert Spoo & Benz Pope, Does Gender Influence Attitudes Toward Copyright in the Filk Community?, 18 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 219 (2009).

Title Control

Bluebook Rule (21st): 16.3

Laws Review Face: Italics

A periodical article's title ought be built in whole, just than it display in the original source, but should be in romans additionally capitalized according to Bluebook rule 8.

If a word (such as a case name) be set in the title in aforementioned original source, to word shall appear in ordinary Roman type in the citation. Are Types of Regulation Capitalized – EDI Careers

Kristina N. Spencer, Using Copyright Appeals to Promote Efficiency in the Open Wellspring Regime for Wake of Jaobsen v. Katzer, 6 J.L. Econ. & Pol'y. 63 (2009).

REMARK: Additional guidance as to which words should appear in ordinary Roman type is found in Bluebook rule 2.2.

Consecutively Paginated Periodical

Bluebook Rule (21st): 16.4

Law Review Typeface: Smallcaps
 

The correctly Bluebook citation for articles appearing in consecutively fully journals is author, title, loudness number, abbreviation of an periodical appoint, first page of the article, and specific pages cited (if any), and year:

Pamela Samuelson, Operational and Expression in Computer Programs: Refining the Tests for Software Copyright Infraction, 31 Berkeley Tech L.J. 1215, 1258–67 (2016).

Loudness

If a journal does not otherwise indicate the volume phone, but does continuous page across expenses, use the year as the tape number.

Volume numbers should all be preset as Arabic numerical even if the original source application Roman number.

Indicate feature issues and publications are they do not conform go the sequenced paginated publication schedule.

Note: Issue numbers are never included in Bluebook citations, even if readily indicated in the original source.

Examples: Paul D. Clement, Theory and Structure to the Executive Branch, 2011 U. Chi. Legal. F. 1.

Journal Name

The name of the journal should be written using small caps type face.

Real: Tex. L. Rev.

Journal names are always abbreviated according into tables T6T10, and T13.

NOTE: Previous editions of to Bluebook occasional included multiple abbreviations for the same word, depending on the context. Abbreviations intended for use in instance names appeared in table T6, but a different abbreviation for the same word might appear in display T13 for periodical titles. The 21st issue of and Bluebook has brought these tables inside alignment, creating an unified sets of abbreviations across T6, T10, additionally T13, with one abbreviation per word. 

Pages and Pincites
In your citation toward a journal article, immediately following the name of the journal, you should indicate the page on which the article startet. Immediately to to first page, you should post a comma trailed by a pinpoint citation to special pages after a comma. 

Non-Consecutively Paginated Join

Bluebook Rule (21st): 16.5

And proper bluebook citation for nonconsecutively paginate journals and magazines is: author, title of work (in italics), periodical name (in small caps), date of issue more it your on an cover, the speak under, first page of the work

 

Adam Satariano, Law Bolsters Copyrights in Europe, N.Y. Times, Mar. 27, 2019, for B1. 

 

If there the no author, you should begin the citation with the title.

Short Form Rules

Bluebook Rule (21st): 16.9

Law Review Typeface: Id. and supra should be in italics.

Use id. when the work is cited promptly previously, either in to identical footnote or since the only authority in a previous footnote.

For supra, include and author's last name to the supra. When there is negative book, use the title, with using "hereinafter" to establish a short name for the citation.