If you include a parallel citation to a print source, you are not to include a pinpoint citation for that print source. Generations of law students, lawyers, scholars, judges, and other legal professionals have relied on the bluebook s unique system of citation in their writing. A guide for students and practitioners legal citation. Bluebook uniform system of citation alwd citation manual. The order refers the reader to the michigan appellate opinion manual, which sets forth the courts current standards for citation of authority, quotation, and style in opinions of the supreme court. A uniform system of citation and the alwd guide to legal citation. By order of november 5, 2014, the supreme court rescinded administrative order 20063, which had set forth the michigan uniform system of citation. The standard citation guide for american legal writing, the bluebook is widely used throughout legal practice, by paralegals, attorneys, professors, and students.
The indigo bookwas compiled by a team of students at the new york university school of law, working under the direction of professor christopher jon sprigman. If you are citing to a publicdomain citation whether an illinois opinion or a nonillinois opinion and including a pinpoint citation, rule iiia3 instructs you to pinpoint cite to the paragraph number. The indigo book law is the operating system of our. Bluebook uniform system of citation 19th edition by author author 4.
Guide to cite using bluebook citation method with examples. This handout briefly lists some of the basic citation rules of. The bluebook of legal citation is a must have for every law student because lawyers are crazy and have to have a crazy way of citing everything. A uniform system of citation is the most widely used rules manual for academic and. Welcome tothe indigo booka free, creative commonsdedicated implementation ofthe bluebooks uniform system of citation. A guide for students and practitioners legal citation, third edition. It is a monstrous growth, remote from the functional need for legal citation forms, that serves obscure needs of the legal culture and its student subculture. The manual supplements the uniform citation system for florida. A uniform system of citation edition 20 available in other format.
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While writing for collegelevel courses, it is essential that students cite and credit their sources in order to maintain a professional voice. A uniform system of citation is the basic citation resource for washington appellate court opinions except as noted below. The bluebook harvard uniform system of citation 20th ed. Legal citation strives to enable a reader to find and verify the accuracy of sources used by an author.
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