SAMPLE CITATIONS FOR SECONDARY SOURCES & CASES …

SAMPLE CITATIONS FOR SECONDARY SOURCES & CASES

FALL 2016

DICTIONARIES Bluebook rule: B15.1, R15.8

1. Laches, Black's Law Dictionary (10th ed. 2014).

ENCYCLOPEDIAS Bluebook rule: R15.9.

1. 2 Am. Jur. 2d Adoption ? 31, Westlaw (database updated Aug. 2016). Citing a section located on Westlaw.

BOOKS Bluebook rule: B15, R15

1. Lawrence Anthony Sullivan, Handbook of the Law of Antitrust (1977). Citing an entire book with one author, no specific page, or section.

2. Women and the Law 197 (Carol H. Lefcourt ed., 1984). Citing a book with an editor to a specific page.

3. Fleming James, Jr. et al., Civil Procedure ? 2.3 (4th ed. 1992). Citing a book with more than two authors to a specific section and an edition other than the first.

4. National Center for State Courts, Court Improvement Programs: A Guidebook for Planners 230-36 (1972). Citing a book with an institutional author to a specific span of pages.

5. 2 Kenneth Culp Davis & Richard J. Pierce, Jr., Administrative Law Treatise ?10.3, at 124 (3d ed. 1994). Citing a multi-volume work with two authors to a specific page, within a specific section, within a particular volume.

6. 1 Howard B. Abrams, The Law of Copyright ? 3:2, Westlaw (database updated Oct. 2015). Citing a multi-volume work on Westlaw with one author to a specific section, within a particular volume.

RESTATEMENTS (Use the year of publication NOT the year of adoption.) Bluebook rule: B12.1.3, R12.9.4

1. Restatement of Torts ? 402 (Am. Law Inst. 1934). Citing to the First Restatement.

2. Restatement (Second) of Torts ? 402A cmt. b (Am. Law Inst. 1965). Citing to the Second Restatement and the comment to a specific section.

3. Restatement (Third) of Prop.: Servitudes ? 6.2(1) (Am. Law Inst. 2000). Citing to a specific sub-section in the Third Restatement. This Restatement (Property) contains a sub-title (Servitudes).

LEGAL PERIODICALS Bluebook rule: B16, R16

1. William F. Pedersen, Jr., The Decline of Separation of Functions in Regulatory Agencies, 64 Va. L. Rev. 991 (1978). Citing an article in a legal periodical written by a non-student.

2. Robert A. Christensen, Note, Does Voucher to Warranty Belong in the UCC?, 18 Stan. L. Rev. 666 (1966). Citing a student-written work in a legal periodical.

STATE CASES Bluebook rule: B10, R10

1. State v. Edgett, 197 N.W.2d 525, 526-27 (Mich. Ct. App. 1972). Michigan Court of Appeals case with pinpoint citing.

FEDERAL CASES Bluebook rule: B10, R10

1. Matthews v. Weber, 423 U.S. 261 (1976). Citing a Supreme Court case available in United States Reports.

2. Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584 (2015). This case is not yet available in United States Reports.

3. Godinez v. Lane, 733 F.2d 1250 (7th Cir. 1984). Citing a United States court of appeals case.

4. McLean v. Heckler, 586 F. Supp. 1364 (E.D. Pa. 1984). Citing a federal district court case.

5. Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co., 348 F. Supp. 954 (M.D. Pa. 1972), aff'd, 483 F.2d 754 (3d Cir. 1973), aff'd, 419 U.S. 345 (1974). Subsequent history citations.

ALR ANNOTATION Bluebook rule: R16.7.6

1. Randy R. Koenders, Annotation, What Constitutes Financial Ability to Perform Within Rule Entitling Broker to Commission for Producing Ready, Willing, and Able Purchaser of Real Property, 87 A.L.R.4th 11 (1991).

2. D. Richard Joslyn, Annotation, Wife's Right of Action for Loss of Consortium, 36 A.L.R.3d 900, ? 6 (1971). Pincite to a section rather than a page because this ALR was accessed on Lexis Advance.

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