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.
STATUTE
Name art.
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.