Tacoma Community College Library: Citing sources: Citing Legal Documents

What is the Bluebook?

"The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation" is a guide to help law students and legal professionals cite their sources in a uniform manner. By using general citation standards, the writer allows the reader to easily access the materials used in a paper or project.

Here's the description of the legal Bluebook on its official website:

Generations of law students, lawyers, scholars, judges, and other legal professionals have relied on The Bluebook's unique system of citation in their writing. 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.

The Legal Bluebook
Official website of the Bluebook

Citing legal documents help links

Citing Legal Documents: Helpful Links

Legal Resources at the Library
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Basic legal citation help
Introduction to basic legal citation, from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School

Legal citation books in the TCC Library

The Bluebook
Call Number: Reference KF245 .B58 2015
Publication Date: 2015
This edition of The Bluebook retains the same basic approach to legal citation established by its predecessors. The layout of the Bluebook has been updated to make the information easier to access. Some citation forms have been expanded, elaborated upon, or modified from previous editions to reflect the ever-expanding range of authorities used in legal writing and to respond to suggestions from the legal community.