Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(The BlueBook)
7 Footnotes of Articles
Author, Title of Articles, Volume Number of Journal Title of Journal First Page Number of Article,
Page Cited Footnote Number (Year).
Ex. Akhil Reed Amar, The Two-Tiered Structure of the Judiciary Act of 1789, 138 U. PA. L. REV. 1499,
1525 n.80 (1990).
8 Reports
8.1. Numbered federal reports and documents
Name of the house, number of Congress-number of report, the part or page number on which the
material being cited appears (year of publication).
H.R. REP. NO. 99-253, pt. 1, at 54 (1985).
James A. Baker, Principles and Pragmatism: American Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli
Conflict, Address Before the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (May 22, 1989), in
DEP'T ST. BULL., July 1989, at 24-25. the address is published
12 Internet
When the traditional source is accessed, increased accessibility to the source may be
provided in the form of a parallel citation to the Internet using "available at":
Ex. Am. Mining Cong. v. U.S. Army Corps of Eng'rs, No. CIV.A.93-1754-SSH (D.D.C.
Jan. 23, 1997), available at http://www.wetlands.com/fed/tulloch1.htm.
If only the Internet is accessed, provide the traditional and Internet citations using no
explanatory phrase:
Ex. Minnesota v. McArthur & Randall R. Smith, No. C4-99-502 (Minn. Ct. App. Sept. 28,
1999), http://www.courts.state.mn.us/library/archive/ctapun/9909/502.htm.
If the material is found exclusively on the Internet, use the explanatory phrase "at":
Ex. J.T. Westermeier, Ethical Issues for Lawyers on the Internet and World Wide Web, 6
RICH. J.L. & TECH. 5, 7 (1999), at http://www.richmond.edu/jolt/v6il/westermeier.html.
13 Films and Broadcasts
Cite films in large and small capitals, and television or radio broadcasts in italics, by title, episode
name (if available), and exact date (if available). Include the name of the company or network that
produced or aired the films or broadcast:
► Airplane! (Paramount Pictures 1980).
► Law & Order: Tabula Rasa (NBC television broadcast Apr. 21, 1999).
► Reportage: People Complaint about Landlessness (RFA radio broadcast Feb. 11, 2007).
NB:
Id. Refer to the same previous footnote.
Id. at 100-106. Refer to the same previous footnote but different only page number.
Supra note 4. Refer to the above footnote number 4. Supra note can be used (unless “id.”
is appropriate) when an authority has been fully cited previously.
Supra note may refer to the same previous footnote but different vision. If the above footnote
refers to the page number in the source, this footnote refers to the whole
source.
Ex: 1. BRUCE ACKERMAN, WE THE PEOPLE: TRANSFORMATIONS 24 (1998).
2. Supra note 1. Because it refers to the whole book of the above footnote.
- For citing books, if the number of authors is more than three, it is more preferable to write only the first
author's name and use et al, for example: Gail. D. et al.
- is symbol for a space.
- § is a symbol for "section". If there are several sections, the symbol becomes §§.
- at is used to separate numbers, for example to separate date from page number.
- ed. is the symbol for “edition” or “editor”.
Bibliography
1 Books
Author. Title. Number of Edition, if any. Place of publication: Publisher, Year.
The author’s name must be written in family name followed by a comma and then first name. If there are
several authors, the others’ name must be written in normal style.
Ex. Hawkins, A.J.. Law Relating to Owners and Occupiers of Land. London: Butterworth, 1971.
Fainstein, Susan, and Scott Campbell. Urban Theory. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Inc., 1996.
Author’s work in collected works, we write:
Author. Title of work. Edited by editor’s name. Title of book. Volume number, if any, Place of
Publication: Publisher, Year.
Ex. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by W. G. T.
Shedd. Vol 1, Aids to Reflection. New York: Harper & Bros., 1884.
Component part by one author in a work by another, we write:
Author. “Title of component part.” In Title of book, ed. Editor’s name, page range. Place of
Publication: Publisher, Year.
Ex. Beech, Mary Higdon. “The Domestic Realm in the Lives of Hindu Women in Calcutta.” In
Separate Worlds: Studies of purdah in South Asia, ed. Hanna Papnanek and Gail Minault, 110-38.
Delhi: Chanakya, 1982.
2 Articles in Journals
Author. “Title of article.” Title of journal, Journal volume (Year): page range.
Ex. Jackson, Richard. “Running down the Up-Escalator: Regional Inequality in Papua New Guinea.”
Australian Geographer 14 (May 1979): 175-84.
3 Articles in Magazines
Article in a journal
N Richard Jackson, “Running down the Up-Escalator: Regional Inequality in Papua New
Guinea,” Australian Geographer 14 (May 1979): 180.
B Jackson, Richard. “Running down the Up-Escalator: Regional Inequality in Papua New
Guinea,” Australian Geographer 14 (May 1979): 175-84.
start and end page number.
NB:
Ibid. is used to refer to the same previous reference without any intervening references. E.g.,
1
Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 157.
2
Ibid. → everything is the same note number 1.
3
Ibid., 160. → the same as previous but different only with page number.
4
Ibid., 190; idem, The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism, 102. → idem refers to
the same previous author but different work. Note that idem is a complete word, not an
abbreviation, and is therefore not followed by a period.