How To Use Et Al Bluebook

Rule 10 2 applies to both case names in textual sentences and citations and is divided into two.

How to use et al bluebook. Sookochoff et al 2017. Bluebook citation style is designed for both students and researchers to be used in academic writing the whitepages and practitioners clerks lawyers and other legal professionals to be used in non academic legal documents the bluepages citation format of the whitepages and the bluepages differs in typeface and elements of citation. According to the bluebook footnotes should generally not list more than two authors for multi author works. Some general rules are given below. Note that this rule has changed from apa 6 guidelines on using et al which recommend listing all author names in the first citation up to five authors but then using et al for the second and subsequent citations here is how this would look for a source authored by sookochoff lai and bakke published in 2017.

10 2 law review typeface. Most official court reports publish the opinion of just one court. Can be used to abbreviate almost anything. A guide to legal citation using bluebook rules. Means and others and abbreviates people in a list while etc.

A period is always used after et al since the term is used to abbreviate the latin term et alii. In the parentheses identify the court deciding the case by using table 1 of the bluebook. Individual author give the author s full name as it appears on the publication including any suffix such as jr but omitting titles such as dr or prof two authors list the authors names in the order they appear on the title page separated by an ampersand. Each case citation must include the precise identity of the court deciding the case. Italics for procedural phrases in general rule 10 2 provides guidelines for creating simple and straightforward case names from the list of parties given at the beginning of every case report.

Thus when following the pc rule by naming the court report the court is also identified.