Macdonald-Kelce Library: Law &amp; Legal Studies: Citation Help

Citing Your Sources

While most databases will provide you with citation information, it is essential you check those references for accuracy with the appropriate style guide. Many citations provided by databases will contain errors and it is essential for the scholarly process to have accurate citations.

The Bluebook by Harvard Law Review (Compiled by); Columbia Law Review (Compiled by); University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Compiled by); Yale Law Review (Compiled by)
Call Number: KF245 .B58, Reserve Desk

ISBN: 9780692400197

The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation has been the go-to guide for generations of law students, lawyers, scholars, judges, and other legal professionals. In a diverse and rapidly changing legal profession, The Bluebook continues to provide a systematic method by which members of the profession communicate important information to one another about the sources and legal authorities upon which they rely in their work.

Legal Citation

Here are a few free online guides to help with legal citation:

Introduction to Basic Legal Citation - LII - Cornell
Citation guide provided by the LII at Cornell University Law School. This site also provides streaming videos that instruct users on how to correctly cite legal materials.
The Indigo Book: An Open and Compatible Implementation of A Uniform System of Citation
A free, Creative Commons-dedicated implementation of The Bluebook’s Uniform System of Citation. The Indigo Book was compiled by a team of students at the New York University School of Law, working under the direction of Professor Christopher Jon Sprigman.
Florida Style Manual
The Florida Style Manual supplements the uniform citation system for Florida legal documents contained in Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.800 and the standard citation authority for American legal journals, the 21st edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation.
Chicago Manual of Style - Purdue OWL
The CMOS explained by the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

The Supreme Court's Style Guide by Supreme Court of the United States; Jack Metzler (Editor)
ISBN: 9780991116331

Publication Date: 2016-03-10

The Supreme Court's Style Guide contains the style preferences of the Supreme Court, used by its Reporter of Decisions when preparing the Court's official opinions and the published United States Reports. Available online through SSRN.