Always check the blue pages in the back of the bluebook table 1 to. If underlining is used instead of italics it should continue under successive. Quotation marks punctuation rules the blue book of. One space appears to be more correct, is widely used, and required by all of. It contains extensive instructions on how to format case citations, and rule 10 also provides guidance on citing briefs, court filings, and. Put a space before and after each period in an ellipse. Citing cases bluebook guide guides at georgetown law. After an allnew sedan and coupe were introduced last year, only minor changes are made on mainstream models.
According to the bluebook, you must italicize the period in id. The kelley blue book price advisor shows you what you should pay for a new or used car based on what others have paid in your area. He finally answered after taking five minutes to think that he did not understand the question. Parentheses and brackets must never be used interchangeably. Always use a signal unless 1 the cited authority directly. If material in parentheses ends a sentence, the period goes after the parentheses. Furthermore, these rules are not necessarily intuitive after all, why, for example, do prepositions with five letters have to be capitalized in headings, but not. For the most part, when one begins to cite uncommon resources or laws that are far afield of the usual statutes. Kelley blue book new and used car price values, expert.
It helps to have a trusted pricing source on your side. Parentheses and brackets the blue book of grammar and. In court documents, use ordinary roman, italics, and underlining. Introductory signals appear at the beginning of citation sentences.
Quotation marks are used for components, such as chapter titles in a book, individual episodes of a tv series, songs from a broadway show or a music album, titles of articles or essays in print or online, and shorter works such as short stories and poems. Notice that the period is also underlined when you use id. Some of the most obscure bluebook rules or how to really. This relation can be supportive, comparative, or contradictory. Use parentheses to enclose information that clarifies or is used as an aside. Should one or two section symbols be used in an et seq. For example, in the bluebook you have to underline the period at the end of id. Weird bluebook rules bluebook citations libguides at william s. The big news for 2014 accords is the introduction of a regular hybrid model and a. No comma separates the signal from the rest of the. When instead they form the verb of a sentence that includes the citation they are not italicized or underlined. Typeface conventions bluebook legal citation tarlton law.
Signals are important because they indicate how a cited authority relates to the text. Boston college law school professor richard albert responded to my question and, with his. One thing that apparently still has the power to infuriate people, though, is how many spaces should be used after a period at the end of an english sentence. If treatise has more than two authors, cite only first listed author and include et al. Bluebook citation in scholarly legal writing georgetown law. Commas, semicolons, and other punctuation marks should be in italics if they are part of the italicized material, not when they are an element of. If treatise has two authors, include the full name of both. Note that the name of the reporter is in regular font, neither underlined nor italicized, even though it is the title of a book.
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