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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;
The predominant legal style guide is the Bluebook. Wikipedia articles generally follow Bluebook format for case names and case citations. Leave off given names and only include the first plaintiff/petitioner and the first defendant/respondent. Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, not Bell Atlantic Corp., et al. v. William Twombly and Lawrence Marcus
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]
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 ...
ALWD Citation Manual. ALWD Guide to Legal Citation, formerly ALWD Citation Manual, is a style guide providing a legal citation system for the United States, compiled by the Association of Legal Writing Directors. Its first edition was published in 2000, under editor Darby Dickerson.
Cases are to be cited with as little punctuation as possible in the names or the report names. If there is a neutral citation, [3] which is generally the case after 2001 or 2002, it should be cited before the "best" report: the Law Reports (AC, QB, Ch etc.), or the WLR or the All ER, after a comma. Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co [1893] 1 QB 256
The title of the article being cited journal: The name of the periodical the article appears in. Per the Bluebook style, abbreviations should be used for common words such as journal (J.), American (Am.), Law (L.), Policy (Pol.), et altera. For a list of abbreviations, see this site. volume: The volume of the periodical that the work appears in ...
For the cite tool, see Special:Cite, or follow the "Cite this page" link in the toolbox on the left of the page in the article you wish to cite. The following examples assume you are citing the Wikipedia article on Plagiarism , using the version that was submitted on July 22, 2004, at 10:55 UTC , and that you retrieved the article on August 10 ...