a guide for students and practitioners Barris, Linda J. creator author text style manuals. Style manuals Style manuals. Codes typographiques. ncu 2025 2025 Fifth edition. monographic eng

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xiii, 187 pages ; 23 cm "The Bluebook provides the rules for legal citation, but can be intimidating and frustrating to use. With its simple building-block approach, this survival manual teaches how to understand and master the essential rules for legal practitioners. Rules are fully described and illustrated using: Clear explanations and illustrations of the basic components of legal citations; Step-by-step instructions for building citations to the most common authorities cited by legal practitioners; Detailed guidance for citing legal materials to both print and electronic sources; Examples, comparison charts, illustrations, and bullet-point explanations designed for quick mastery of basic Bluebook citation rules; Tips, hints, and cautions to help users avoid common citation errors; Cross references to the controlling Bluebook rules; and A user-friendly format gathering The Bluebook's scattered rules for each authority into one place"-- 1. Getting started -- 2. Cases -- 3. Statutes -- 4. Constitutions -- 5. Regulations -- 6. Procedural and court rules -- 7. Secondary sources -- 8. Litigation documents and record citations -- 9. Strings, signals and explanatory parentheticals -- 10. Quotations -- 11. Capitalization -- 12. Numbers, numerals, ordinals, and symbols -- 13. Electronic sources. specialized Linda J. Barris. Includes index. Citation of legal authorities United States Annotations and citations (Law) United States Annotations and citations (Law) KF 245 .B37 2025 9781531034139 2025014861 PUCPR 251202 20260930105346.0 on1513080971 eng