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Understanding and mastering The bluebook : a guide for students and practitioners / by Linda J. Barris.
Barris, Linda J. author.
2020
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Author
Barris, Linda J. author.
Title
Understanding and mastering The bluebook : a guide for students and practitioners / by Linda J. Barris.
Uniform Title
Bluebook (Cambridge, Mass.)
Published
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2020]
Copyright
©2020
Call Number
KF245 .B37 2020
Edition
Fourth edition.
ISBN
9781531019150 (spiral bound)
1531019153 (spiral bound)
9781531019167 (ebook)
Description
xiii, 181 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1141021316
Summary
"The Bluebook® provides the rules for legal citation, but can be intimidating and frustrating to use. With its simple building-block approach, this survival manual teaches how to understand and master the essential rules for legal practitioners. Rules are fully described and illustrated using: Clear explanations and illustrations of the basic components of legal citations; Step-by-step instructions for building citations to the most common authorities cited by legal practitioners; Detailed guidance for citing legal materials to both print and electronic sources; Examples, comparison charts, illustrations, and bullet-point explanations designed for quick mastery of basic Bluebook citation rules; Tips, hints, and cautions to help users avoid common citation errors; Cross references to the controlling Bluebook rules; and A user-friendly format gathering The Bluebook's scattered rules for each authority into one place"-- Provided by the publisher.
Note
Includes indexes.
Other Editions
Revision of: Barris, Linda J. Understanding and mastering The bluebook. Third edition. Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2015] 9781611637748 (OCoLC)914395603
Available in Other Form
Online version: Barris, Linda J. Understanding and mastering The bluebook. Fourth edition. Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2020] 9781531019167 (OCoLC)1239735543
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Cases
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Constitutions
Regulations
Procedural and court rules
Secondary sources
Litigation documents and record citations
Strings, signals and explanatory parentheticals
Quotations
Capitalization
Numbers, numerals, ordinals, and symbols
Electronic sources
Appendix: Citing cases from commercial databases.

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