How to Cite Quotes in Law Review Articles

"The central office of a legal commendation is to allow the reader to efficiently locate the cited source."The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation ane (Columbia Law Review Ass'n et al. eds., 21st ed. 2020).

Citations in legal writing serve two purposes:

• Attribution - to identify the source of ideas expressed in the text, and
• Back up - to straight the reader to specific dominance supporting the proposition in the text

Avoid accidental plagiarism past citing a source for any thought that is not original.

At that place are many copies of the Bluebook on reserve. Ask for one at the Apportionment Desk. Yous can subscribe to the Bluebook online here.

The white pages in the Bluebook address bookish citation. This is citation for law reviews, journals, and other bookish legal publications. These are the rules yous will use for an academic paper or law review article.

The Bluepages department of the Bluebook addressesnon-academic citation. It is commendation for practitioners and law clerks. Here you will find guidance and examples of commendation formats that you lot will utilize when writing your memoranda, briefs, and other court documents. This is the format for legal documents.

Page 7 has a helpful tabular array that sets out the differences between the typeface used in non-academic and academic citation.

Front inside embrace	Quick Reference Guide to Police force Review Footnotes. These rules are for academic legal citation. You will use them for writing your upper level papers and law review notes and comments.
Table of Contents	Pages IX - Xvi Guide to the Bluepages rules and the bookish (white pages) rules and tables.
TheBluepages	Includes introduction to basic legal citation for practitioners and rules B1-B21. Also includes Blue Tables (BT) 1-2.
Rules 1-ix	General rules roofing construction and utilise of citations (rule 1); typefaces (rule two); subdivisions (dominion 3); short forms (rule four); quotations (rule 5); abbreviations, numerals, and symbols (rule vi); italicization for style and in unique circumstances (rule 7); capitalization (dominion 8); and titles of judges, officials, and terms of courtroom (rule 9).
Rules 10-19	Rules for citing specific sources, including cases (rule ten); constitutions (rule xi); statutes (rule 12); legislative materials (rule thirteen); administrative and executive materials (rule fourteen); books, reports, and other nonperiodic materials (rule 15); periodicals (rule 16); unpublished and forthcoming sources (rule 17); the internet (dominion 18); and services (dominion 19).
Rules 20-21	Rules for citing foreign and international law.
Tables T1 - T16	Table T1 contains guidance on instance constabulary and statutory citation by jurisdiction. Table T6 covers abbreviations for instance names. Table x covers abbreviations for geographical terms.
Alphabetize	Detailed guide to the Bluebook rules.
Dorsum inside cover	Quick Reference Guide to Court Documents and Legal Memoranda.
Back comprehend	Contains outline of Bluebook contents.

Court	Unofficial reporters	Official reporter (reporter required past Bluebook table T1 is in blue)	Example (with pinpoint page)	Brusk grade case  (when you can't use id.)
U.South. Supreme Court	Westward'south Supreme Courtroom Reporter (S. Ct.) Lawyer'southward Edition (50. Ed.)	Usa Reports (U.Due south.)	Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.Due south. 436, 442 (1966).	Miranda, 384 U.S. at new folio.
U.S. Courts of Appeals		Federal Reporter (F., F.2d, F.3d)	Envtl. Def. Fund v. EPA, 465 F.2d 528, 529 (D.C. Cir. 1972).	Envtl. Def. Fund, 465 F.2d at new page.
U.S. District Courts		Federal Supplement (F. Supp., F. Supp 2d, F. Supp. 3d)	Duren v. Bennett, 275 F. Supp. 2nd 374, 377 (East.D.N.Y. 2003).	Duren, 275 F. Supp. 2nd at new page.

• Step Constabulary Library Guide to Instance Citations

  Includes details on which court decisions are cited in each of the W regional reporters, federal reporters, and N.Y. state reporters.

Court	Official reporter	Unofficial reporters (reporter required by Bluebook table T1 is in blue)	Example (with pinpoint page)	Short form example (when you can't use id.)
N.Y. Court of Appeals	New York Reports (Due north.Y., N.Y.second, N.Y.3d)	New York Supplement (N.Y.S., Northward.Y.S.2d, Due north.Y.S.3d) N Eastern Reporter (N.E., N.Due east.second, N.Due east.3d)	People v. Rosario, 173 N.E.2d 881, 885 (North.Y. 1961).	Rosario, 173 N.E.second at new folio.
N.Y. Supreme Court, Appellate Segmentation	Appellate Partition Reports (A.D., A.D.2d, A.D.3d)	New York Supplement (N.Y.Due south., Due north.Y.S.second , N.Y.Due south.3d)	People v. Ray, 527 N.Y.Due south.second 864, 865 (App. Div. second Dep't 1988).	Ray, 527 Due north.Y.Due south.second at new page.
N.Y. trial level courts*	Miscellaneous Reports (Misc., Misc. second, Misc. 3d)	New York Supplement (N.Y.Due south., N.Y.S.2d, Northward.Y.S.3d)	People 5. Arthur, 673 Due north.Y.Southward.2d 486, 487 (Sup. Ct. 1997).	Arthur, 673 N.Y.South.2d at new page.

*The trial level courts in New York include the Supreme Courtroom, Court of Claims, Family Court, Surrogate's Court, County Courts, City Courts, Civil Court of the City of New York, Criminal Courtroom of the City of New York, District Courts of Nassau and Suffolk Counties, and Town and Village Justice Courts. Opinions of the Appellate Term, an intermediate appellate court in the 1st and 2nd Departments, are also published in Miscellaneous Reports.

To summarize: for New York, cite the New York Supplement for all courts except the highest court, the New York Court of Appeals. Cite the Northward Eastern Reporter for the New York Court of Appeals.

• Guide to New York Case Citations

  Unmarried page chart of about unremarkably cited case reporters for New York Country.

Code	Official compilation (version preferred by Bluebook table T1 is in blue)	Unofficial compilations (version preferred by Bluebook table T1 is in blue)	Example	Brusque grade (when you can't use id.)
Federal	U.s.a. Code (U.s.C.)	United States Code Annotated (U.South.C.A.) U.s. Lawmaking Service (U.South.C.S.)	18 U.S.C. § 231 (2016). 18 U.S.C.A. § 231 (West 2015). 18 United statesC.S. § 231 (LexisNexis 2009).	xviii The statesC. § 231 18 U.S.C.A. § 231 18 The statesC.S. § 231 or § 231
New York		McKinney'due south Consolidated Laws of New York) (McKinney) Consolidated Laws Service (C.L.S.)	N.Y. PENAL LAW § 120.10 (McKinney 2009). N.Y. PENAL 50AW § 120.10 (Consol. 2009).	N.Y. PENAL LAW § 120.x N.Y. PENAL 50AW § 120.10 or § 120.x

Bluebook rule 12.3.ii requires the publication date of the print or an authenticated electronic edition in the parenthetical.

• For the U.S.C., there is an authenticated version here.
• For the United states of americaC.A., the most recent chart with the dates of the print volumes is on this page. Click Summary of contents on the left.
• For N.Y., the nearly recent nautical chart with dates of the McKinney'due south impress volumes is on this page. Click Summary of contents on the left.
• For Calif., there is a chart with the dates of the print volumes here
• For Pa., at that place is a chart with the dates of the print volumes on this page. Click Summary of contents on the left.
• For N.J., the most recent chart with dates of the print volumes is on this page. Click Summary of contents on the left.

If the code is published past West (Thomson Reuters), look in the Thomson Reuters store and very often there will exist a TOC with the dates of publication.

Secondary source	Example (includes pinpoint page or section)	Short class (when you can't use id.)
Book (single volume) (rule xv)	LINDA C. FENTIMAN, BLAMING MOTHERS: AMERICAN 50AW AND THE RISK TO CHILDREN'S HEALTH 55 (2017).	FENTIMAN ,supra, at new page.
Volume (multi-volume) (dominion 15)	3 MICHAEL B. MUSHLIN, RIGHTS OF PRISONERS § 2.2 (5th ed. 2017).	M USHLIN , supra, § new department.
Law review article (dominion sixteen.4, tables T10, T13)	BENNETT L. GERSHMAN, Constitutionalizing Ethics, 38 PACE L. REV. 40, 42 (2017).	KERSHMAN , supra, at new folio.
Legal encyclopedia (rule fifteen.8)	17 A1000. JUR. 2dAnimals § 27 (2018).	17 AM. JUR. 2nd, supra, new section.
Restatement (dominion 12.9.4)	RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS § 46 (AYard. 50AW INST. 1965).	R ESTATEMENT  (Southward ECOND ) OF  T ORTS § new section. T ORTS § new section.
American Law Reports (dominion 16.seven.six)	Marjorie A. Shields, Notation,Snowboarder's  Liability for Injuries to or Death of Another Person, fifteen A.50.R.6th 161 (2006).	Shields, supra, at new page.
Newspaper commodity (rule16.6, tables T10, T13)	Adam Liptak, Wartime Internment of Japanese Looms Over Tr avel Ban Instance, N.Y. TIMES, April. 17, 2018, at A12. Adam Liptak, Travel Ban Example Is Shadowed past Ane of Supreme Court'south Darkest Moments, N.Y. TIMES (Apr. sixteen, 2018), https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/sixteen/us/politics/travel-ban-japanese-internment-trump-supreme-court.html.	Liptak, supra, at new folio. Liptak, supra.

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