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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, 20th Edition (2015)

 R 15 - Books, Reports, and Other Nonperiodic Materials:

Volume  •   Author(s),  •  Title of book  •  Page cited  •  (Editor(s)  •   Abbreviation for editors,  •  Edition cited  •  Year of publication).

 ex. Michel Foucault, Discipline And Punishment 30-31 (Alan Sheridan trans., Vintage Books 2d ed. 1995) (1997).

or

ex. 7A Charles Alan Wright et al, Federal Practice and Procedure §1758 114-115 (3d ed. 2005).

R 15.5.1 – Works in Collection Generally:

Volume  •  Author (s),  •  Title of shorter work,  •  in  •  Title of larger work  •  Page(s) cited  •  (Year of Publication).

 ex.  3 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Primitive Notions in Modern Law No. II, in The Collected Works of Justice Holmes 21-22 (1996).

R 16 - Periodical Materials

Author,  •  Title of article,  •  Journal volume number  •  Abbreviation of journal  •  Page on which article begins,  •   Span of specific pages cited  •  (date of publication)  •  (parenthetical describing content of pages cited).

ex. 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 (20th ed. 2015) )

 

Taken from the ALWD (Association of Legal Writing Directors) Citation Manual, 4th Edition (2010)

22.0 - Books, Treatises, and Other Nonperiodic Materials:

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

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

or

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

22.1 (i) Chapter or collected works in a Book:

Author,  •  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).

ex. 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 1996).

23.0 - Legal and Other Periodicals (i.e. articles in journals, law reviews,newspapers, newsletters and other periodicals):

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

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

 

(Citation: DICKERSON, D. (2010). ALWD citation manual: a professional system of citation. New York, NY, Aspen Publishers)