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Guide to Library Services for Law Review and Law Journals

This guide will serve as a fundamental resource for information on library services and policies geared toward DePaul Law Review and Specialty Journals and their specific research needs.

Citation Examples

Taken from "The Bluebook: Uniform System of Citation," 22d Ed. pp. 155-164

 R15 BOOKS, REPORTS, AND OTHER NONPERIODIC MATERIALS

Volume (if any) AUTHOR(S) NAME(S) (small capitals), • TITLE OF BOOK (small capitals) • Page(s) cited • (Translator [if any], Editor Name(s) [if any] • abbreviation for "editors", (if applicable) • Edition cited • Year of publication).

 e.g., MICHEL FOUCAULT, DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH 30-31 (Alan Sheridan trans., Vintage Books 2d ed. 1995) (1975).

OR

e.g., 7A CHARLES ALAN WRIGHT et al., FEDERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE §1758 114-115 (3d ed. 2005).

R15.5.1 Works in Collection Generally

Volume (if any) AUTHOR(S) NAME(S) (small capitals), • Title of Shorter Work, • in • TITLE OF LARGER WORK (small capitals) • Page citation begins, • Page(s) cited • (Year of Publication).

 e.g., 3 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Law in Science and Science in Law, in COLLECTED LEGAL PAPERS 210, 210 (1920).

R16 PERIODICAL MATERIALS

Author's full name • Title of article, • Journal volume no.  •  Abbreviation of journal • Page on which article begins, • Span of specific pages cited • (Date of publication) • (parenthetical describing content of pages cited).

e.g., Charles A. Reich, The New Property, 73 Yale L.J. 733, 737-38 (1964) (discussing the importance of government largess).

(Citation: Harvard Law Review Association, Columbia Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, & Yale Law Journal. The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (22d ed. 2025).)

Taken from the ALWD (Association of Legal Writing Directors) Citation Manual, 4th Ed. pp. 223-239

22.0 BOOKS, TREATISES, AND OTHER NONPERIODIC MATERIALS

Author(s), • Title • Pinpoint reference(s) • (Editor [if any], • Translator [if any], • Edition [if any], • Publisher • Date).

e.g., Charles Alan Wright, Arthur R. Miller & Mary Kay Kane, Federal Practice and Procedure vol. 7A § 1758, 114-115 (3d ed., West 2005).

OR

e.g., Charles Alan Wright et al., Federal Practice and Procedure vol. 7A § 1758, 114-115 (3rd ed., West 2005).

22.1 (l) Collected works of one author

Author's name, • Title of shorter work, • in • Title of larger work • Initial page or subdivision of shorter work, • Pinpoint subdivision • (Editor [if any], • Translator [if any], • Edition [if any], • Publisher Date).

e.g., Oliver Wendell Holmes, Primitive Notions in Modern Law No. II, in The Collected Works of Justice Holmes vol. 3, 21, 22 (Sheldon M. Novick ed., U. Chi. Press 1995).

23.0 LEGAL AND OTHER PERIODICALS

Author • Title, • Volume number • Periodical abbreviation • Initial page, • Pinpoint page • (Date).

e.g., L. Ray Patterson, Legal Ethics and Lawyer's Duty of Loyalty, 29 Emory L.J. 909, 915 (1980).

(Citation: ALWD & Darby Dickerson, ALWD Citation Manual (4th ed., Aspen Publishers 2010).)