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.)
For this class, it is best to use parallel citations. If you are not using parallel citations, select the reporter as specified in Bluebook table 1. For this example, it is the Northeastern Reporter, N.E.2d.
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.
…
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.
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.