Bluebooking for GWR & Law Review footnotes Spring 2017

Bluebook for Law Review Articles Cutting and pasting from Westlaw or Lexis is just a start!

Bluebook for Law Review Articles Quick reference Law Review Footnotes - front cover White pages (vs. blue pages) Index Index eg. Model Penal code, Newspaper articles

Rule 2 - Typeface Law Review Mistretta v. United States, 488 U.S. 361, 363 (1989). Brief Mistretta v. United States, 488 U.S. 361, 363 (1989). If grammatically part of a sentence in a law review article, italicize the case name.

Rule 2 - Typeface Law Review Brief Emily R. Murphy, Sentencing Alternatives from Neuroscience and the Policy of Problem-Solving Courts, 37 Law & Psychol. Rev. 83, 85 (2013). Brief Emily R. Murphy, Sentencing Alternatives from Neuroscience and the Policy of Problem-Solving Courts, 37 Law & Psychol. Rev. 83, 85 (2013). Although note that some law reviews do not use large and small caps.

Abbreviations for Law Journals Table 10 and 13 Bluebook Quick Reference: Abbreviations and How-tos

Law Review Short Forms – Rule 16.9 1 Stephanie Roberts Hartung, Habeas Corpus for the Innocent, 19 U. Pa. J.L. & Soc. Change 1, 2 (2016) 2 Id. at 5. …… 32 Hartung, supra note 1, at 12.

Supra, Hereinafter, R. 4.2 Do not use Hereinafter (or supra) for cases, statutes, constitutions, regulations, legislative history (other than hearings), restatements or model codes. Exception – authority with extremely long name, use hereinafter Use hereinafter to distinguish between authorities appearing in the same footnote that have the same author (see examples in R. 4.2)

Cross References in Text – R. 3.5 supra – points to material that has appeared BEFORE that point in the piece See supra note 22. Infra – points to material that appears LATER in the piece: See infra section III.A.2.

Cases – Rule 10 See Bluebook quick reference guide Law Review footnotes: Case names, use T6 & T10 to abbreviate Except if Geo. Unit the entire name of a party – eg. United States

Short Form for Cases – Rule 10.9 Only if case cited in same footnote or one of the preceding FIVE footnotes 1 Mistretta v. United States, 488 U.S. 361, 363 (1989). 2 Id. at 390. …. 6 See Mistretta, 488 U.S. at 388.

Statutes – R. 12 Lexis/Westlaw – R. 12.5: 18 U.S.C.A. § 1832 (Westlaw through P.L. 114-316. Also includes P.L. 114-318 to 114-321, 114-323 to 114-327, 115-1 and 115-2. )

Books, R. 15 Race and the Death Penalty : the Legacy of McCleskey v. Kemp 151 (David P. Keys & R.J. Maratea, eds.) Margaret Colgate Love et al., Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions § 2:20 (2016), Westlaw.

Bluebook requires citing to Print unless… Print difficult/impossible to find, OR Electronic is authentic, official or exact copy (pdf) of print source See R. 18.2 newspapers: online versions can be used to replace print. R.16.6(f)

Do not need URL if: Authentic, official or exact copy (pdf). (State authentic, official) Cite as if to original print source – R. 18.2.1

8 C.F.R. §207.3 (2016)

Citations to Internet Sources R. 18.2.2 Author, Title (indicates location of page in relation to rest of the website), Main Page Title (Date, time), url. If no date, put (last visited date) after the url:

Sentencing Reform, Am. Civ. Liberties Union, https://www. aclu Sentencing Reform, Am. Civ. Liberties Union, https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/sentencing/sentencing-reform (last visited Feb. 14, 2017).

Collateral Consequences Resource Ctr. , http://ccresourcecenter Collateral Consequences Resource Ctr., http://ccresourcecenter.org (last visited Feb. 14, 2017).

Online Periodicals Reuters, Trump Questions Lawmakers’ Efforts to Curb Asset Seizures by Police, N.Y. Times, (Feb. 7, 2017, 2:57 PM), https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/ 2017/02/07/us/politics/07reuters-usa-trump-police.html?_r=0

Interviews – R. 17.2.5 Telephone Interview with Andrew McCullough (convicted felon denied right to vote) (Feb. 15, 2017). Interview with Janet Reed, Probation Officer, Cuyahoga Cty. Adult Probation Dept. (Mar. 16, 2017).

When in doubt: Ask a librarian Find RECENT examples in: Columbia Law Review Harvard Law Review U. Pennsylvania Law Review Yale Law Journal