FOOTNOTING AND LEGAL

CITATION: FOLLOWING THE

BLUE BOOK UNIFORM
SYSTEM OF CITATION

By: Atty. Patrick Simon Perillo
Ateneo Law School J.D. 08
DLSU LMG 03
TOPICS TO DISCUSS AND LEARN

Order of Authorities
Primary
Secondary
Footnoting
Short citation
Bibliography
Abbreviation of Words

ORDER OF AUTHORITIES PRIMARY

Constitution
Statutes, treaties and other international
instruments
Cases
Legislative Documents other than statutes
Administrative or executive documents
Implementing Rules and Regulations
Court Documents including Rules of Court
Documents of intergovernmental organizations
ORDER OF AUTHORITIES
SECONDARY

Books, Annotations and Treatises
Journal Articles
Periodical Articles
Internet Sources
Interviews
Papers and Theses
Miscellaneous

CONSTITUTION

Current Constitution:
{STATE OR COUNTRY} CONST.
{subdivisions}
PHIL. CONST. art. VI, 11, 2.

Repealed Constitution:
{Year of adoption} {STATE OR COUNTRY}
CONST. {subdivisions} ({year superseded}).
1935 Phil. Const. art. 1, 1 (superseded
1971).

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CODES AND STATUTES
Codes
{full title} {SHORT TITLE}, {statute number,
{subdivisions} ({year}).
An Act Revising the Penal Code and Other Penal
Law {REVISED PENAL CODE], Act No. 3815, art. 2
(1932).

Short citation and subsequent citations:
{SHORT TITLE}, {subdivisions}.
REVISED PENAL CODE, arts. 171-173.
Id.
Id. Art. 180, 2.
CODES AND STATUTES
Statutes
{full title} [{Short title, if any}], {statute
number}, {subdivisions} ({year}).

An Act Penalizing the Making or Drawing and Issuance
of a Check Without Sufficient Funds or Credit and for
Other Purposes, Batas Pambansa Blg. 22, 6 (1978).

Short citation and subsequent citations:
{Short Title or abbreviated statute number}, {subd.}.
B.P. Blg. 22, 5.
Id.
Id. 2.
CODES AND STATUTES
Statutes

An Act Providing for the Recognition and Use of
Electronic Commercial and Non-commercial
Transactions and Documents, Penalties for Unlawful
Use Thereof and For Other Purposes [e-Commerce Act
of 2008], Republic Act. No. 8792, 33 (2000).

Short citation and subsequent citations:
E-Commerce Act of 2008, 33-34.
Id.
Id. 10.
CASES (JUDICIAL DECISIONS)
Supreme Court Decisions
Reported Cases General Rule
{case name}, {volume number} {Reporter} {first page},
{cited page} ({year}).

Laurel v. Abrogar, 483 SCRA 243, 245 (2006).

Unreported Cases Exception
{case name}, {G.R. Number}Reporter}, {cited page}
{date}.

People v. Ramos, G.R. No. 172470, Apr. 8, 2008.

CASES (JUDICIAL DECISIONS)
Short citation and subsequent citations:

Laurel, 483 SCRA at 269.
Id. at 255.
Id.
People v. Ramos, G.R. No. 172470, Apr. 8, 2008.
Id.
CASES (JUDICIAL DECISIONS)
Decisions of other Philippine courts

{case name}, {volume number} {Reporter}
{first page}, {cited page} ({Court} {year}).

People v. Collantes, 37 O.G. 1804, 1805
(Court of Appeals 1926).

If unreported, follow the same format as that of
the Supreme Courts unreported cases.
(Exception)
LEGISLATIVE MATERIALS
Bills
{title}, {legislature}, {session}, in {publication,
if any} {subdivision} ({date}).

H.B. 604, 13th Cong., 2d Sess. (May 12,
2007, in 128 Cong. Rec. S. 7091 (May 19,
2007).
LEGISLATIVE MATERIALS
Bills with hearings held

{title of hearing, including the bill number and
committee which held the hearing}, {legislature}
{page number} ({year of hearing}) ({parenthetical
information about person testifying}).

Benefits for U.S. Victims of International
Terrorism: Hearing on S. 1275 Before the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 108th Cong. 2-5
(2003) (statement of William H. Taft, IV, Legal
Advisor, Dept. of State).
LEGISLATIVE MATERIALS
Congressional Reports
{title and author, if any} {H.R. or S. to indicate House of
Representatives or Senate} REP. NO. {Number of Congress}-
{Number of Report}, at {page number} ({year}).

H.R. REP. NO. 99-226, at 8 (1985).
Congressional Journals
{volume, if any} {JOURNAL OF CHAMBER OF CONGRESS}
{journal number}, {legislature}, {session} ({date}).

SENATE JOURNAL 722, 13th Cong. 1
st
Reg. Sess., Senate
Sess. No. 67 (Mar. 7, 2005).
68 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 14,
13th Cong., 1
st
Reg. Sess. (May 10-11, 2005).
EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE
MATERIALS
{issuing agency}, {title, if any}, {issuance or series
number, if any}, {volume} {official source, if any}
{page or section number} ({date}).

Bureau of Internal Revenue, Revenue Memorandum
Circular No. 37-93, 89 O.G. 4476 (Aug. 9, 1993).
Bureau of Internal Revenue, Rev. Reg. No. 16, 2005,
Effectivity Clause (Sep. 1, 2005).
Office of the President, Instituting the Presidential Award
for Heroism in Times of Disaster, Executive Order No.
421 (Sep. 7, 1990).
Securities and Exchange Commission, Code of
Corporate Governance, SEC Memorandum Circular No.
2, Series of 2002 (Apr. 5, 2002).
IMPLEMENTING RULES AND
REGULATIONS
{title of statute}, {subdivisions} ({year}).

Rules and Regulations Implementing the Anti-Violence
against Women and Their Children Act of 2004, 14
(a) (2004).
Id.
Rules and Regulations Implementing the e-Commerce
Act of 2000, 1 (2000).
Id. 5.
RULES OF COURT
{TITLE OF RULES}, {rule}, {subdivisions}.

2000 REVISED RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE,
rule 110, 4.
Id.
1997 RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, rule 41, 2 (a).
Id.
1991 Revised Rules on Summary Procedure, 10.
Id.
BOOKS, ANNOTATIONS, TREATISES
Books and Treatises General Rule:
{AUTHOR}, {TITLE} {cited page} ({year} or {edition
number} {year} or {year of edition}).

RUBEN F. BALANE, JOTTINGS IN CIVIL LAW:
SUCCESSION 53 (2d ed. 2002).
JOAQUIN G. BERNAS, S.J., THE 1987
CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE
PHILIPPINES: A COMMENTARY 1195 (2003 ed.)
SAMUEL WILLISTON, A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF
CONTRACTS, ADMINISTRATIVE LAW TREATISE 120-
21 (1990).
BOOKS, ANNOTATIONS, TREATISES
Books and Treatises Multi-Volume Work
{volume number} {AUTHOR}, {TITLE} {cited page}
({year} or {edition number} {year} or {year of
edition}).
4 OSCAR B. HERRERA, REMEDIAL LAW 150 (2001
ed.)

Books and Treatises With Editor or Translator
{AUTHOR}, {TITLE} {cited page} ({Editor or
translator} {ed(s). or trans.}, {year}).
ADAM SMITH, THE WEALTH OF NATIONS 30-31
(Edwin Cannan ed., 2000).
WOMEN AND LANGUAGE IN LITERATURE AND
SOCIETY 284-99 (Ruth Broker, et al., eds., 1980).
BOOKS, ANNOTATIONS, TREATISES
Books and Treatises 2 Authors
{AUTHOR 1} & {AUTHOR 2}, {TITLE} {cited page}
({year} or {edition number} {year} or {year of
edition}).
JUSTICE JOSE C. VITUG & JUDGE ERNESTO D.
ACOSTA, TAX LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE 150 (2d
ed. 2000).

Books and Treatises More than 2 authors
{AUTHOR 1} ET AL., {TITLE} {cited page} ({year} or
{edition number} {year} or {year of edition}).
JOSUE N. BELLOSILLO, ET AL., OMNIBUS
ELECTION CODE 181 (2007).
BOOKS, ANNOTATIONS, TREATISES
Books and Treatises Short citation and
subsequent citations:

BALANE, supra note 50, at 104.
Id.
VITUG & ACOSTA, supra note 52, at 205.
CRUZ, ET AL., supra note 68, at 305.
Id.
Id. at 288.
3 REGALADO, supra note 80, at 206.
Id. at 299.
BOOKS, ANNOTATIONS, TREATISES
Annotations
{Author}, Annotation, {Title}, {volume number}
{Reporter} {first page}, {cited page} ({year}).

Jorge R. Coquia, Annotation, The National
Computerized Identification Reference System as
Violation of the Right to Privacy: A Review of the
Principles and Jurisprudence on Privacy as Human
Rights, 293 SCRA 201, 203 (1998).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
{Author}, {Title}, {volume number} {JOURNAL} {first
page, {cited page} ({year}).

Patrick Simon S. Perillo, Transporting the Concept of
Creeping Expropriation from de Lege Ferenda to de
Lege Lata: Concretizing the Nebulous under
International Law 53 ATENEO L.J. 434, 488 (2008).

Short citation and subsequent citations:
Perillo, supra note 43, at 489-90.
Id.
Id. at 488.
PERIODICALS
Magazine
{Author}, {Title}, {NAME OF MAGAZINE}, {date}, at
{first page of article}.
Usha Tankha, Transforming Misfortune into Opportunity,
ADB REV., Apr.-May 2006, at 30.

Newspaper Article
{Author}, {Headline}, {ABBREVIATION OF
NEWSPAPER}, {date of article}, at {page on which
article appears}.
John M. Broder, Clinton Adamant on 3D World Role in
Climate Accord, N.Y. TIMES, Dec. 12, 1997, at A1.
INTERNET SOURCES
{Author if available}, {title}, available at {internet
address/website} (last accessed {date}).

Barry M. Leiner, et al., A Brief History of the Internet,
available at
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml#Introducti
on (last accessed Apr. 26, 2007).
Protected Area and Wildlife Bureau, Tamaraw
Conservation Project, available at
http://www.pawb.gov.ph/progs/tamaraw.htm (last
accessed Dec. 27, 2002).

Note: Remove hyperlink.
INTERVIEWS
In-person Interview
{Name}, {Title}, {Institutional Affiliation, if any, of the
interviewee}, in {location of the interview} ({date of the
interview}).
Interview with Dick Cheney, Vice-President, United
States of America, in Washington, D.C. (Oct. 24, 2006).
Telephone Interview
{Name}, {Title}, {Institutional Affiliation, if any, of the
interviewee}, in {location of the interview} ({date of the
interview}).
Telephone Interview with Orhan Pamuk, in Stockholm
(Oct. 12, 2006).
INTERVIEWS
Interview not personally conducted by the author

{Name of interviewer}, {Name of interviewee}, {Title},
{Institutional Affiliation, if any, of the interviewee}, in
{location of the interview} ({date of the interview}).
Interview by Harry Keisler with Kofi Annan, Secretary
General, United Nations, in University of California,
Berkeley (Apr. 19, 1998).
THESES
{Author}, {Title} ({date}) ({indicate type of work},
{institution that awarded the degree}) ({where it can
be found}).
Archie E. Blake, Daubert and Reality: A Survey of
Nevada Judges (1996) (unpublished thesis, University
of Nevada) (on file with Reno Library, University of
Nevada).
Rosalyn C. Rayco, Cyber-Prostitution at a Click of a
Button: Evaluating the Applicability of Prostitution
Statutes in Criminalizing Paid Video-based Cybersex
(2006) (unpublished J.D. thesis, Ateneo de Manila
University) (on file with the Professional Schools Library,
Ateneo de Manila University).

BASIC FOREIGN MATERIALS
United Nations
General Assembly Resolutions

{Resolution number}, {at page number, if if possible, paragraph
number}, U.N. GAOR, {session or volume number},
{supplement or annex number}, {designation} ({year}).
G.A. Res. 2131, at 107-08, U.N. GAOR, 20
th
Sess., Supp. No.
12, U.N. Doc. A/6012 (1965).
G.A. Res. 57/377, 3, U.N. Doc. A/Res/57/377 (July 3, 2003).
G.A. Res. 2131, supra note 34, at 2.

BASIC FOREIGN MATERIALS
United Nations
Reports

{name of issuing body}, [{abbreviation}], {sub-committee that
prepared the report}, {title of the report}, {paragraph number or
the pinpoint cite}, U.N. Doc. {document number} ({date})
({author included, if available}).
U.N. Econ. & Soc. Council [ECOSOC], United Nations Forum
on Forests, Report of the Seventh Session, Chapt. I, A.1.1. at
1, U.N. Doc. E/CN.18/2007/8 (Feb. 24, 2006 and Apr. 16-27,
2007).

BASIC FOREIGN MATERIALS
Treaties, Conventions, Protocols
{name of agreement}, {subdivision, if cited only in part},
{full date of signing}, {international treaty sources}.
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Dec. 10,
1982, Preamble, 1983 U.N.T.S. 3 [hereinafter UNCLOS].
Convention on the Rights of the Child, Nov. 20, 1989, art. 19,
1577 U.N.T.S. 3 [hereinafter CRC].
Id. art. 23.
UNCLOS, supra note 93, at art. 192.
Treaty of Amity and Economic Relations, U.S.-Thail., June 8,
1968, 652 U.N.T.S. 253 [hereinafter T.E.A.R.].

Exception: U.N. CHARTER, art. 43, 1.

BASIC FOREIGN MATERIALS
Cases
{Case name}, ({parties name, except if it is an advisory
opinion}), {volume number and name of publication}
{case number}, {page number} ({date}).
Asylum (Colom. V. Peru), 1950 I.C.J. 266, 277-78 (Nov.
20, 1950).
Legal Status of Eastern Greenland Case, 1933 P.C.I.J.
Ser. A/B No. 53, Ser. C., vol. 62, 43, 109, vol. 63, 858
(Apr. 5, 1933).
Asylum, 1950 I.C.J. at 278.