TY - BOOK AU - Barris,Linda J. TI - Understanding and Mastering The Bluebook®: a guide for students and practitioners SN - 9781531034139 AV - KF 245 .B37 2025 PY - 2025/// CY - Durham, North Carolina PB - Carolina Academic Press KW - Citation of legal authorities KW - United States KW - Annotations and citations (Law) KW - fast KW - style manuals KW - aat KW - Style manuals KW - lcgft KW - Codes typographiques KW - rvmgf N1 - Includes index; 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 N2 - "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"-- ER -