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Legal Citation Format
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Blue Book Legal Citation Guide (Harvard)
This is a guide to the Bluebook system of American legal citation. The information here can help anyone who is writing a scholarly legal paper in the United States, including JD students, LLM students, and SJD students-- from the website. Includes training videos, PowerPoint presentations, and many examples of correct legal citation based on the Blue Book. An excellent source.
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Indigo Book
a free, Creative Commons-dedicated implementation of The Bluebook’s Uniform System of Citation. The Indigo Book was compiled by a team of students at the New York University School of Law. The Indigo Book isn’t the same as The Bluebook, but it does implement the same Uniform System of Citation that The Bluebook does. The scope of The Indigo Book’s coverage is roughly equivalent to The Bluebook’s “Bluepages”—The Indigo Book covers legal citation for U.S. legal materials, as well as books, periodicals, and Internet and other electronic resources. In addition, The Indigo Book offers citation guidance that is deeper than The Bluebook’s Bluepages, e.g., The Indigo Book has citation guidance for bills, and for legislative history, that the Bluepages lack. For the materials that it covers, anyone using The Indigo Book will produce briefs, memoranda, law review articles, and other legal documents with citations that are compatible with the Uniform System of Citation.
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Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (from Cornell University Law School)
A citation guide by Peter Martin includes: What & why; How to Cite; examples; placing citations in context; abbreviations; and 3 video tutorials.