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The Bluebook prescribes rules for the citation of non-legal secondary sources. this Guideline permits the use of the Bluebook's citation style in articles with a U.S. legal subject-matter, but permits other citation styles to be used for secondary-sources even if the Bluebook is used for other sources;
When a case has been published in an official reporter (e.g. the United States Reports), editors should cite the version of the case that appears in the official reporter. Case citations. Case names are italicised, as in the Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp. article. (Case citation or law report information is presented in normal font.) Citation signals
Names must be unique. You may not use the same name to define different groups or footnotes. Try to avoid picking a name that someone else is likely to choose for a new citation, such as ":0" or "NYT". Please consider keeping reference names short, simple, and restricted to the standard English alphabet and numerals. If spaces are used, the ...
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (commonly known as the Blue Book or Harvard Citator [1]) is a style guide that prescribes the most widely used legal citation system in the United States. It is taught and used at a majority of U.S. law schools and is also used in a majority of federal courts. Legal publishers also use several "house ...
Names must be unique. You may not use the same name to define different groups or footnotes. Try to avoid picking a name that someone else is likely to choose for a new citation, such as ":0" or "NYT". Please consider keeping reference names short, simple, and restricted to the standard English alphabet and numerals. If spaces are used, the ...
{} – most common citation template, for sources with a URL {} – to cite a book/chapter or volume as a source reference {{Cite journal}} – to cite an article in a periodical as a source reference; mw:Help:Cite – original documentation of the <ref> citation feature provided by MediaWiki
A footnote is a note placed at the bottom of a page of a document that comments on, and may cite a reference for, a part of the main text. The connection between the relevant text and its footnote is often indicated with a number or symbol which is used both after the text fragment and before the footnote.
Shortened footnotes. Instead of the full citation appearing in the footnote, a short form appears (e.g. Turner 1851), giving only the author and year (or in some styles, a shortened version of the article or book title), and page number if appropriate. The full citation appears later on, in a bibliography section.