When writing a law review article, insert citations as FOOTNOTES. Do not insert the citation into the text, like when you are writing a brief. (Although on occasion it may be appropriate to cite to a case in the text.)
Bluebook Rule 16
Example:
Bernadette Bollas Genetin,The Supreme Court's New Approach to Personal Jurisdiction, 68 SMU L. Rev. 107, 110 (2015).
Rule 15 - Books
Example:
Matthew J. Wilson, Hiroshi Fukurai & Takashi Maruta, Japan and Civil Jury Trials: The Convergence of Forces 45 (2015).
Some books have special citation formats, example:
17 Am. Jur. 2d Contracts § 74 (2017).
Rule 4.1 Id.
Use Id.
Rule 4.2 Short Forms
1 Matthew J. Wilson, Hiroshi Fukurai & Takashi Maruta, Japan and Civil Jury Trials: The Convergence of Forces 45 (2015).
2 Id. at 203.
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30 Wilson, et al., supra note 1.
•Use if case cited in same footnote or in one of preceding 5 footnotes
Example:
1 Brown v. Helvering, 291 U.S. 193, 203 (1934).
2 Id. at 203.
3 United States v. Wilson, 503 U.S. 329 (1992).
4 Brown, 291 U.S. at 203.
Bluebook requires citing to the print unless:
When citing to a website, you do not need the URL if:
Examples:
Sentencing Reform, Am. Civ. Liberties Union, https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/sentencing/sentencing-reform (last visited Feb. 14, 2017).
Collateral Consequences Resource Ctr., http://ccresourcecenter.org (last visited Feb. 14, 2017).
Reuters, Trump Questions Lawmakers’ Efforts to Curb Asset Seizures by Police, N.Y. Times, (Feb. 7, 2017, 2:57 PM), https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2017/02/07/us/politics/07reuters-usa-trump-police.html?_r=0.