April 30, 2014

The Bluebook

Whenever you write scholarly, academic papers you always have to use citations using the proper format. There is MLA. APA. Chicago/Turabian (preferred by the BYU Poli-Sci department). Despite the existence of these great citation systems somewhere along the line, legal academics decided to come up with their own citation system. Basically a bunch of students at Columbia, Harvard, Yale and UPenn were bored one day and decided to come up with a bunch of rules.


So many rules with so many different distinctions for the most useless things. They also use small caps a lot. I got real friendly with this book during the writing of my law review note. I don't understand why we just can't use one of the other standard citation systems. Anyway, just another oddity of law school.

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