Legal Citation Guides
U.S. Supreme Court
- An Introduction to Basic Legal Citation by Peter W. Martin (Cornell Law School)An Introduction to Basic Legal Citation by Peter W. Martin is housed at the Cornell Law School website. This is a helpful guide to legal citation is Web-based but links to a PDF version, a Kindle version, and a Nook version. It has been recently revised to encompass changes in the citation rules of a number of U.S. jurisdictions and was revised the year before to reflect the changes in the fourth edition of the ALWD Citation Manual and the nineteenth edition of The Bluebook, both published in 2010. PDF Version
- Georgetown University Law Library's Bluebook Guide"The purpose of this Guide is to introduce concepts of legal citation and Bluebook usage to beginning law students." This guide is nicely organized.
- Legal Citation 101 Wake Forest University School of Law LibraryIncludes common citation errors and divides citations by primary and secondary materials.
