How To Use Et Al Bluebook

A guide to legal citation using bluebook rules.

How to use et al bluebook. Latin abbreviations like etc. A period is always used after et al since the term is used to abbreviate the latin term et alii. Some general rules are given below. Means and others and abbreviates people in a list while etc. Thus when following the pc rule by naming the court report the court is also identified.

Can be used to abbreviate almost anything. Most official court reports publish the opinion of just one court. Note that this rule has changed from apa 6 guidelines on using et al which recommend listing all author names in the first citation up to five authors but then using et al for the second and subsequent citations here is how this would look for a source authored by sookochoff lai and bakke published in 2017. In the parentheses identify the court deciding the case by using table 1 of the bluebook. Italics for procedural phrases in general rule 10 2 provides guidelines for creating simple and straightforward case names from the list of parties given at the beginning of every case report.

Are used frequently and often incorrectly. Rule 10 2 applies to both case names in textual sentences and citations and is divided into two. Individual author give the author s full name as it appears on the publication including any suffix such as jr but omitting titles such as dr or prof two authors list the authors names in the order they appear on the title page separated by an ampersand. Bluebook citation style is designed for both students and researchers to be used in academic writing the whitepages and practitioners clerks lawyers and other legal professionals to be used in non academic legal documents the bluepages citation format of the whitepages and the bluepages differs in typeface and elements of citation. 10 2 law review typeface.

According to the bluebook footnotes should generally not list more than two authors for multi author works.