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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 ...
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;
The ALWD Guide to Legal Citation is published as a spiral-bound book as well as an online version. It primarily competes with the Bluebook style, a system developed and still updated by law reviews students at Harvard, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia. Citations in the two formats are essentially identical. [1]
The original Baby Blue title was the subject of legal threats due to its similarities to that of Bluebook.. In December 2015, following Twitter postings by Malamud teasing the upcoming release of Baby Blue, the Harvard Law Review Association threatened legal action against the project, as it believed that the name Baby Blue had a confusing similarity to the "Bluebook" trademark, and requested ...
The two most prominent citation manuals are The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation [1] and the ALWD Citation Manual. [2] Some state-specific style manuals also provide guidance on legal citation. The Bluebook citation system is the most comprehensive and the most widely used system by courts, law firms and law reviews. [citation needed]
It uses the Bluebook legal referencing style. This citation style uses standardized abbreviations, such as "N.Y. Times" for The New York Times. Please review those standards before making style or formatting changes. Information on this referencing style may be obtained at: Cornell's Basic Legal Citation site.
A legal citation is a "reference to a legal precedent or authority, such as a case, statute, or treatise, that either substantiates or contradicts a given position." [1] Where cases are published on paper, the citation usually contains the following information: Court that issued the decision; Report title; Volume number; Page, section, or ...
Template harvcolnb creates a short author–date citation with a one-directional link to the first matching citation template on the same page. {{}} is designed to be used to create shortened footnotes, a citation style which pairs a short, author-date citation in a footnote with a complete citation in the references section at the end of the article (see example below).