Blue book citation format
The full names of the Blue Books are Blue Books: Unified English Citation System and Blue Books: Unified Chinese Annotation System. In the process of use, it is generally directly called the blue book, which is the most widely used legal citation guide in the United States. The Blue Book was written by the editorial boards of Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Pennsylvania Law Review and Yale Law Review. The first edition of the Blue Book was published in 1926, and now the twentieth edition has been published. The Blue Book is a reference guide for most law schools in the United States and a citation format used by most federal courts in the United States. Of course, the Supreme Court of the United States has its own citation format, and each state only abides by its own citation format in its own court system.
The Blue Book is a 560-page book, which lists the citation forms of various documents in detail. In the book, you can see the English citation methods of Chinese documents, and you can also see various citation forms of the same document.
In the citation standards of each kind of literature, the Blue Book lists many different citation situations and citation forms for readers to choose from. For example, for works, he lists different citation forms of one author, two authors and more than three authors, and lists different citation forms of one author's works for readers to choose and apply. Under other resources such as periodical papers and electronic documents, examples are also given in various forms as far as possible.
In order to give foreign students an intuitive understanding, here are some examples of blue books for your reference: (Red fonts are for more eye-catching, not format fonts)
Works: penny a. hazelton et al., Desk Book for Legal Researchers in Washington, 3rd Edition (2002).
Journal paper: Helen Anderson, Freedom of Speaking and Listening: Acceptability of Criminal Defense in Entertainment, 83 or L.Rev.899 (2005).
Thesis: Paul Steven Miller, analyzing genetic discrimination in the workplace, in Rights and Freedom in the Age of Biotechnology: Why We Need a Genetic Rights Bill (edited by Sheldon Klimski & Peter Schoret). , 2005).
The citation standard of the blue book is very detailed, which is praised by the encyclopedia on the one hand and criticized for being too complicated on the other. For example, the University of Chicago directly simplified the Blue Book into Maroonbook, which increased the convenience of application. In short, the blue book is a necessary book for writing legal papers, but you don't need to read it through, you just need to check it when you need it.