The Bluebook
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Citation
Fifteenth EditionQuick Reference: Law Review Footnotes
This table gives examples of commonly used citation forms printed in the
typefaces used in law review footnotes (as explained in rule 2.2). The last
page. and inside back cover present these same examples-in the typefaces
used in court documents and legal memoranda (as explained in practitioners’
note P.1).
cases (rule 10)
reporter (rule 10.3) Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co., 348 F. Supp. 954, 956-
58 (M.D. Pa. 1972), aff'd, 483 F.2d 754 (3d Cir. 1973),
aff d, 419 U.S. 345 (1974).
Herrick v. Lindley, 391 N.E.2d 729, 731 (Ohio 1979).
service (rule 18) In re Looney, [1987-1989 Transfer Binder] Bankr. L. Rep.
(CCH) 172,447, at 93,590 (Bankr. W.D. Va. Sept. 9,
1988).
pending and unreported Jackson v. Virginia, No. 77-1205, slip op. at 3 (4th Cir.
cases (rule 10.8.1) Aug. 3, 1978) (per curiam), aff'd, 443 U.S. 307 (1979).
Albrecht v. Stanczek, No. 87-C9535, 1991 U.S. Dist. LEXIS
5088, at *1 n.1 (N.D. Ill. Apr. 18, 1991).
Mack v. Charlesworth, No. 90-345 (D. Mass. filed Sept. 18,
1990).
Mack v. Charlesworth, 925 F.2d 314 (Ist Cir. 1991), petition
‘for cert. filed, 60 U.S.L.W. 3422 (U.S. Jan. 14, 1992) (No.
92-212).
constitutions (rule 11) N.M. Consr. art. IV, § 7.
statutes (rule 12)
code (rule 12.3) Administrative Procedure Act § 6, 5 U.S.C. § 555 (1988).
22, U.S.C. § 2567 (Supp. I 1983).
session laws (rule 12.4) Department of Transportation Act, Pub. L. No. 89-670, § 9,
80 Stat. 931, 944-47 (1966).
legislative materials
(rule 13)
unenacted bill HLR. 3055, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. § 2 (1976).
(rule 13.2)
hearing (rule 13.3) Toxic Substances Control Act: Hearings on S. 776 Before
. the Subcomm. on the Environment of the Senate Comm.
on Commerce, 94th Cong., ist Sess. 343 (1975).
report (rule 13.4) S. Rep. No. 910, 89th Cong., Ist Sess. 4 (1965).
books (rule 15) DeBorAH L. RHODE, JUSTICE AND GENDER 56 (1989).
. Cuartes DICKENS, BLEAK House 49-55 (Norman Page ed.,
Penguin Books 1971) (1853).
21 CuaRLEs A. WRIGHT & KENNETH A. GRAHAM, JR.,
FEDERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE § 5023 (1977).
pamphlets Women’s Bureau, U.S. Dep't oF Lapor, LEAFLET No.
(tule 15) 55, A Workinc Woman’s Guipe To Her Jos RIGHTS
(1978).
shorter works in Urvashi Vaid, Prisons, in AIDS AND THE Law 235, 237-39
collection (rule 15.5) (Harlon L. Dalton et al. eds., 1987).
Outver W. Houmes, Law in Science and Science in Law, in
CoLLectED LEGAL PaPers 210, 210 (1920).
John Adams, Argument and Report, in 2 LEGAL PAPERS OF
JouN ApaMs 285, 322-35 (L. Kinvin Wroth & Hiller B.
Zobel eds., 1965).consecutively
paginated journals
(rule 16.2)
article
student-written work
(rule 16.5.1)
book review
(rule 16.5.2)
nonconsecutively
paginated journals
(rule 16.3)
newspapers (rule 16.4)
unpublished
manuscripts
(rule 17.1.1)
letters
(rule 17.1.3)
interview
(rule 17.1.4)
forthcoming
publications
(rule 17.2)
foreign cases
(rule 19.4)
common law
civil law
foreign constitutions
(rule 19.5)
foreign statutes
(rule 19.6)
common law
civil law
treaties (rule 20.4)
United Nations official
records (rule 20.7.1)
Patricia J. Williams, Alchemical Notes: Reconstructed
Ideals from Deconstructed Rights, 22 Harv. C.R-C.L.
L. Rev. 401, 407 (1987).
Thomas R. McCoy & Barry Friedman, Conditional
Spending: Federalism’s Trojan Horse, 1989 Sur. Cr.
Rev. 85, 100.
Dawn M. Johnsen, Note, The Creation of Fetal Rights:
Conflicts with Women’s Constitutional Rights of Liberty,
Privacy, and Equal Protection, 95 YALE L.J. 599, 619
n.81 (1986).
Note, The Death of a Lawyer, 56 CoLuM. L. REV. 606
(1956).
Bruce Ackerman, Robert Bork's Grand Inquisition, 99 YALE
L.J. 1419, 1422-25 (1990) (book review).
Lynn Hirschberg, The Misfit, Vanity Fair, Apr. 1991,
at 158.
Andrew Rosenthal, White House Tutors Kremlin in How a
Presidency Works, N.Y. Times, June 15, 1990, at Al, A7.
Cop Shoots Tire, Halts Stolen Car, S.F. CHRON., Oct, 10,
1975, at 43.
Adrienne D. Davis, African American Literature and the
Law: Revising and Revisiting Freedom 12-15 (Dec. 1989)
(on file with The Yale Law Journal).
Letter from Jonathan Ross, Senior Editor, The Yale Law
Journal, to Larry Frankel, Executive Editor, University of
Pennsylvania Law Review 2 (Apr. 7, 1991).
Telephone Interview with Rebecca J. Simmons, Managing
Editor of the Columbia Law Review (Mar. 1, 1991).
Darieck Scott, Between Men and Women!Between Men and
Men: Male Rape and Straight Man's Law, 1 StaN. J.L.
GenpeR & SEX. ORIENT. (forthcoming 1991) (manuscript
at 2, on file with author).
The King v. Lockwood, 99 Eng. Rep. 379 (K.B. 1782).
Judgment of June 6, 1937, Cass. civ. Ire, 1937 Recueil
Périodique et Critique (D.P.] I 167 (Fr.).
GrunpcESETz [Constitution] [GG] art. 51 (F.R.G.).
Pacific Fur Seals Convention Act, R.S.C.
ch. F-33 (1970).
Aussensteuerreformgesetz [AStG], 1972 BGBI I 1713
(F.R.G.).
Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation, Apr. 2,
1953, U.S.-Japan, art. X, 4 U.S.T. 2063, 2071.
U.N. GAOR, 10th Sess., Supp. No. 6A, at 5, U.N. Doc.
‘A/2905 (1955).