Citation Guide

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BLUEBOOK (19th ed.)

CITATION FORMAT EXAMPLES (FOR FOOTNOTES)

GENERAL RULES

Times New Roman, Size 10, 1 line spacing,

Add full stop after every footnote.

Months should be written in abbreviated forms: Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, June, July, Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov.,

Tables given at the end of the Bluebook should be referred to for abbreviated forms Eg. Abbreviations of geographical terms, periodicals, publishing terms etc.

I. BOOKS

Volume No. (if any) NAME OF AUTHOR, TITLE OF THE BOOK pg. cited (Editors/Translators Name, edition cited year).

Eg:

FREDERICK POLLOCK & FREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND, THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW 205-06 (2d ed. 1911).

CHARLES DICKENS, BLEAK HOUSE 49-55 (Norman Page ed., Penguin Books 1971) (1853).

Rules & Exceptions

Follow the font format as has been illustrated above, for e.g. name of author must be in SMALL CAPS.

The first name must always be written before the

For two authors, write both their names separated by „&‟.

In case of citing a book that has been edited, write „ed. or „eds. after the name of the editor. If translated, write trans. after name of translator. If both, then first write editor’s name and then translator’s

For more than two authors, editors or translators write the name of the author, editor or translator that appears first followed by “ et ”

Do not add „p‟ or „pp‟ before the page number. Just write the

In case the book is being published by more than one publishing house, write the name of the publisher cited after the name of the editor in sentence

II. JOURNAL ARTICLE

For consecutively paginated journals (Where the periodical is organised by volume and page numbers continue throughout the volume, it is a consecutively paginated periodical)

Name of Author, Title of Article, Journal volume no. ABBREVIATION OF JOURNAL Page on which Article Begins, Page Cited (Year).

Eg.

Charles Reich, The New Property, 73 YALE L.J. 733, 737-38 (1964).

Rules & Exceptions

For two authors, write both their names separated by „&‟.

For more than two authors write the name of the author that appears first followed by “et ”

For non-consecutively paginated journals (works appearing in periodicals that are separately paginated within each issue)

Name of Author, Title of Article, ABBREVIATION OF JOURNAL, date of issue as appears in the cover, at first page of work, page cited.

Eg:

Barbara Ward, Progress for a Small Planet, HARV. BUS. REV., Sept.-Oct. 1979, at 89, 90.

III. NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

Author‟s name, Name of Artcile/ news report, ABBRV. OF NAME OF NEWSPAPER, Month Date, Year, at pg. no.

Eg.

Ari L. Goldman, O’Connor Warns Politicians Risk Excommunication over Abortion,

N.Y. TIMES, June 15, 1990, at A1.

IV. INTERNET

(When an authenticated official or exact copy of source is available online, citation can be made as if to the original print source without any URL info appended.)

Name of the Author, Name of article, INSTITUTIONAL OWNER OF DOMAIN (Month date, year, time), URL.

Eg:

Eric Posner, More on Section 7 of the Torture Convention, THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY (Jan. 29, 2009, 10:04 AM), http://www.volokh.com/posts/1233241458.html.

Rules & Exceptions

Format for time as

Don‟t write available at or at before the

Write the entire URL as appears in the address bar of the browser, remove

V. CASES

S. cases:

First Party v. Second Party, Reporter Vol. No., Reporter Abbrv., First Page of Case, Specific Page Reference (Year).

Eg:

Meritor Sav. Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57, 60 (1986).

b) Indian cases:

Case name, (year of reporter) Vol No. Reporter Abbreviation, First page (year of decision if different from year of reporter (India, if not evident from context)

Eg:

Charan Lal Sahu v Union Carbide, (1989) 1 C.C. 674 (India).

Reporters that depart from this format shall be written in their own format.

Eg:

Jabalpur v. Shukla, A.I.R. 1976 S.C. 1207 (India).

Rules & Exceptions:

Do not italicise the case

If there are more than one parties, list only the first

Italicise the procedural phrases, for e.g., In re, Ex parte

VI. STATUTES

S. Law

Official name of act, U.S.C. title number Abbreviation of Code cited, sections symbols and span of sections containing statute (Date of Code edition cited).

Eg:

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 S.C.
§ 9601-9675 (2006).

b) U.S. Constitution

Abbreviation of Constitution cited Abbreviation for Amendment No of amendment cited, section symbol and no. of section cited.

Eg.

S. CONST. amend. XIV, § 2.

CONST. art. X, pt. IV.

c) Indian Law

Act name, Act No., Acts of Parliament, Year of Volume (India, if not evident from context).

Eg:

d) Indian Constitution

Eg:

INDIA CONST. art. 1, cl.

VII. SHORT FORMS

DICKENS, supra note 2. Reich, supra note 3, at 739.

Id. at 740.

SOURCE: The Bluebook A Uniform System of Citation Nineteenth Edition