C36 2010 (produced by McGill Law Journal = Revue de Droit de McGill).Ĭhina: 罗伟主编 = Wei Luo, 法律文献引证注释规范 = Proposed Legal Citation System, KNQ48. The Library also has some citation guides for individual countries.Ĭanada: Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation = Manuel Canadien de la Référence Juridique (2010), KE259. The chart below shows the countries covered in each guide. This four-volume set is available in the Reference Office at the Law Library (RefO K85 K3 1991 v.1-4). In addition, volume four contains a breakdown by subject, but only covers some English-speaking countries. Sections include: Africa, Australian, Bulgarian, Canada, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Korean, India, Italian, Japanese, Korean, New Zealand, Latin, Portuguese, South African, Spanish, and UK and Commonwealth of Nations. It is separated into sections, generally based on language. While the Bluebook, the Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations, and the International Citation Manual provide a few abbreviations that are most commonly required by practitioners in the United States, the World Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations provides hundreds of additional abbreviations used around the world. Each has a several-page guide giving an overview its legal system and showing citation formats for different major publications (constitution, statutes, cases, etc.), with lots of examples. The International Citation Manual (ICM), prepared by the editors of the Washington University Global Studies Law Review, covers 37 countries. The second edition (2009) (which is commercially published) is available in print in the Reference Office ( K89. The first edition (2006) is available in PDF here. Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations, by the New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, covers 45 countries. In addition to The Bluebook, you might want to use two other guides that cover dozens of jurisdictions: (Imagine how big it would be if it had the detail about other countries that it does for the U.S.!) It has information about citing materials from 43 selected foreign jurisdictions in T2, pp. materials, but it is less comprehensive for foreign jurisdictions. The Bluebook offers detailed guidance for all sorts of U.s.

The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (20th ed., 2015) is the dominant citation manual for U.S. Prepared by Mary Whisner with a contribution by AJ Blechner (law librarianship intern, 2014).

Bluebook 20th edition pdf