A uniform system of citation washington connie krontz seattle university school of law joan foley touro law center. It is common practice in legal documents to cite other publications by using standard abbreviations for the title of each source. Toggle navigation introduction to basic legal citation. A b c d e f gh i jk l m n o p qr s t u vwxyz show all. Citing cases bluebook rules dulaneybrowne library at. Such citations and abbreviations are found in court decisions, statutes, regulations, journal articles, books, and other documents. Abbreviations for court names that you would use in the event a court abbreviation is not provided in table 1. Law library law databases contact us search catalog how do i law library guides bluebook quick reference. Cases bluebook legal citation tarlton law library at tarlton law. Words in case names basic legal citation cornell university. What should you abbreviate when citing a case common acronyms i. B here refers to the rules from the bluepages at the beginning of the bluebook.
Bluebook rule 10 covers how cases should be cited in legal documents. Set out below is a table of words and their abbreviations with links to examples. Court document abbreviations table 8 of 17th edition this table gives suggested abbreviations for citations of court documents and legal memoranda not in the other forms of legal writing for the words most commonly found in the titles of court documents. Abbreviations may also be found for common words or legal phrases.
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