4th RMLNLU-SCC Online International Media Moot Court Competition 2016

BLUEBOOK KEY

This table gives example of commonly used citation forms printed in the typefaces used in briefs
and legal memoranda.

Every footnote must end with a Full Stop.

Every abbreviation must have its letters separated by periods.
Example: A.I.R., S.C.C., H.C.
Although italicized has been used in these examples, underlining would also be appropriate.

BOOKS

Volume number (if any) Author, title page no ( ed.[edition] Publisher Year of Publication).

Example:

2 Antonio Cassese, International Criminal Law 342-343 (2d ed. Oxford University Press 2008).

Volume number (if any) Author, title page no ( [if editor] ed., ed.[edition](if any) Publisher
Year of Publication).

Example:

Charles Dickens, Bleak House 49 (Norman Page ed., Penguin Books 1971).

CASES

Case name, citation, paragraph (denoted by ).

Example:
Prosecutor v. Jelisic, I.C.T.Y. (Trial Chamber), judgement of 14 December 1999, Case No. IT-
95-10-T , 83.
Union of India v. Hari Prasad, A.I.R. 1987 S.C. 786.
Jackson v. Metro Edison Co., 483 F.2d 754 (3d Cir. 1973).
STATUTE
Name of the statute (without comma) article/section.
Example:
Indian Const. art 1, 9, cl. 2.
Indian Penal Code, 1860 25.

INTERNET SOURCES

Author (if any), Title (date), link.

Author (if any), Title (date), available at link.

Example:

Report on the activities performed during the first three years (June 2003-June 20s06), The
Hague (Sept. 12, 2006), available at
http://www.icccpi.int/Menus/ICC/Structure+of+the+Court/Reports+and+Statement/.

Eric Posner, More on section 7 of the Torture Convention, The Volokh Conspiracy (Jan. 29,
2009, 10:04 AM), http://www.volokh.com/posts/1233241458.shtml.

ARTICLES/PERIODICALS

Author, Article Name, citation.

Example:

David Rudovsky, Police Abuse: Can the violence be contained?, 27 Harv.C.R.C.L.L.Rev. 456,
500 (1992).

Andrew Rosenthal, White House Tutors Kremlin in How a Presidency works, N.Y.Times, June
15, 1990, at A1.