Mapping BlueBook® to Baby Blue's (Draft 19 February 2016)

I prepared this mapping to assist readers in comparing The Bluebook® A Uniform System of Citation® to the Baby Blue's Manual of Legal Citation.

Another mapping reverses the order and displays Baby Blue's Manual of Legal Citation to The Bluebook® A Uniform System of Citation®.

For all of the hand waving around guides to legal citations, legal citations are more common than pigeon droppings in Rome. You need only gather them up and write an explanation for how to use them. After diligent searching, I have found no one objecting to anyone gathering legal citations and/or writing about how to use those legal citations.

However, attempting to donate the work of others, for the "public good," isn't the same as creating your own work product.

If you undertake the challenge of creating better public access to legal citations, please don't attempt to write Bleak House "lite" or some other mimic of current practice.

Direct comments and suggestions to: patrick@durusau.net.

Bluebook®Baby Blue's
B1, R1R1. Two Types of Legal Documents
B2, R2R2. Typeface Standards
B1, R1R3. In-Text Citations
B1.2, R1.2R4. Signals
B8, R8R5. Capitalization Rules
B1.2, R1.2R6. Signals for Supporting Authority
B1.2, R1.2(b)R7. Signals for Comparison
B1.2, R1.2(c)R8. Signals for Contradictory Authority
B1.2, R1.2(d)R9. Signals for Background Material
B1.2, R1.4R10. Order of Authorities Within Each Signal / Strength of Authority
B10, R10B. CASES
B10.1R11. Full citation
B10.1.3, R10.4, R10.5R12. Court & Year
B10.1.5, R10.6.1R13. Weight of Authority and Explanatory Parenthetical
B10.1.6, R10.7R14. History of the Case
B10.2, R10.9R15. Short Form Citation for Cases
R12, R13, R14C. STATUTES, RULES, REGULATIONS, AND OTHER LEGISLATIVE & ADMINISTRATIVE MATERIALS
B12.1.1, R12R16. Federal Statutes
B12.1.2, R12R17. State Statutes
B12.1.3, R12.9.3, R12.9.4R18. Rules of Procedure and Evidence, Restatements, and Uniform Acts
B14, R14R19. Administrative Rules and Regulations
B12.1.4, R12.9.1R20. Federal Taxation Materials
B13, R13R21. Legislative Materials
R13.8R22. Short Form Citation of Legislative and Administrative Materials
B11, R11R23. Sources and Authorities: Constitutions
R10.8.3D. COURT & LITIGATION DOCUMENTS
R10.8.3R24. Citing Court or Litigation Documents from Your Case
R10.8.3R25. Citing Court or Litigation Documents from Another Case
B4, R4R26. Short Form Citation for Court Documents
B8, R8R27. Capitalization Within the Text of Court Documents and Legal Memoranda
B15, R15E. BOOKS & NON-PERIODICALS
B15.1R28. Full Citation for Books & Non-Periodicals
B15.2R29. Short Form Citation for Books & Non-Periodicals
R16F. JOURNALS, MAGAZINES, & NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
B16.1R30. Full Citation for Journals, Magazines & Newspaper Articles
B16.2R31. Short Form Citation for Journals, Magazines & Newspaper Articles
B18, R18G. INTERNET SOURCES
R18.2.1R32. General Principles for Internet Sources
B18.1.1, R18.1R33. Basic Formula for Internet Sources
B18.2R34. Short Form Citations for Internet Sources
R12.8H. EXPLANATORY PARENTHETICALS
B1.3R35. General Principles for Explanatory Parentheticals
R1.5(b)R36. Order of parentheticals
B5, R5I. QUOTATIONS
B5.1R37. General Principles for Quotations
R5.2R38. Alterations of Quotations
R5.3R39. Omissions in Quotations
B5.2R40. Special Rules for Block Quotations
J. TABLES
T1T1. Federal Jurisdictions
T1.1T1.1. Federal Judicial and Legislative Materials
T1.2T1.2. Federal Administrative and Legislative Materials
T1.3T2. U.S. States and Other Jurisdictions
T7T3. Required Abbreviations for Court Names
T9T4. Required Abbreviations for Legislative Documents
T5T5. Required Abbreviations for Arbitral Reporters
T6T6. Required Abbreviations for Case Names In Citations
T3T7. Required Abbreviations for Intergovernmental Organizations
T3.1, T3.2T7.1. United Nations and League of Nations
T3.3, T3.4, T3.5T7.2. Europe
T3.6, T3.7, T3.8T7.3. Inter-American and International Tribunal
T3.9T7.4. Other Intergovernmental Organizations
T15T8. Required Abbreviations for Services
T15T8.1. Service Publisher Names
T15T8.2. Service Abbreviations
T4T9. Required Abbreviations for Treaty Sources
T10T10. Required Abbreviations for Geographical Terms
T10.1T10.1 U.S. States, Cities and Territories
T10.2T10.2 Australian States and Canadian Provinces and Territories
T10.3T10.3 Countries and Regions
T11T11. Required Abbreviations for Titles of Judges and Officials
T12T12. Required Abbreviations for Month Names
T13T13. Required Abbreviations for Periodical Names
T13.1T13.1. Required Abbreviations for Institutions
T13.2T13.2. Required Abbreviations for Common Words Used In Periodical Names
T14T14. Required Abbreviations for Publishing Terms
T8T15. Required Abbreviations for Explanatory Phrases
T16T16. Required Abbreviations for Document Subdivisions
T2T17. Table of Citation Guides