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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 ...
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.
The case name should be in italics. Use {{Italic title}}. Abbreviations. Article titles should be the names of the parties, as given in the official reporter, as docketed in the highest court to issue an opinion. The title should be abbreviated as follows: Omit all parties after the first plaintiff and the first defendant; do not use "et al."
Such citations and abbreviations are found in court decisions, statutes, regulations, journal articles, books, and other documents. Below is a basic list of very common abbreviations. Because publishers adopt different practices regarding how abbreviations are printed, one may find abbreviations with or without periods for each letter.
This redirect category template places pages into both Category:Redirects from Bluebook abbreviations and Category:Printworthy redirects by default. In 2003, efforts were begun to support the Wikimedia Foundation 's goal of increasing access and availability of Wikipedia articles in printed versions .
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