The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citations [The Harvard Bluebook] gets a
new edition every three years. In between there are "printings" with
changes. The next edition [17th] should be 1999.
The newest copy [16th edition, Sixth Printing 1998] of the Bluebook has
arrived. These are some of the "noteworthy changes" included this latest
printing:
Rule 1.2 Use of Introductory Signals [see, see also, Cf., etc] - has been
modified, and the number has been reduced.
Rule 3.3 Pages, Footnotes, Endnotes, and Graphical Materials - been
expanded to include citation formats for endnotes and graphical materials.
Rule 10.3.1 Parallel Citations - has been modified to require use of an
official public domain citation format when available.
Rule 10.4 Court and Jurisdiction - The abbreviation for citing the
decisions of bankruptcy appllate panels has been modified.
Rule 10.5 Date or Year - Now requires an exact date for all unreported
cases and for all cases cited to a looseleaf service, a slip opinion, an
electronic database, or a newspaper.
Rule 10.7 Prior and Subsequent History - No longer requires that denials
of cert. or denials of similar discretionary appeals be indicated unless
the decision is less than two years old or the denial is particularly
relevant.
Rule 12.5 Secondary Sources - Updated to provide a special citation format
for citing a code contained in an electronic database.
Rule 12.8.5 Model Codes, etc. - Expanded to include sentencing guidelines.
Rule 13 Legislative Materials - Modified to eliminate the identification
of the session number when the session can otherwise be inferred from the
remainder of the citation.
Rule 13.4 Reports, Documents, and Committee Prints - The format for
citing numbered reports and documents has been modified.
Rule 15.1 Author, Editor, and Translator - Modified to require the full
name as it appears on the publication being cited.
Rule 16.1 Same as Rule 15.1, but for periodicals.
Rule 17.3.3 Internet Sources - Guidance for citing materials from the
Internet.
Rule 19 Foreign Materials - Requires that citations conform closely to
local citation practice of the jurisdictions whose material in being
cited.
Table T.2 - Revised and expanded and should be used in conjunction with
Rule 19 in determining citation format.
Rule 20.8.4 WTO and GATT - New citation format for these organizations.
Tables T.1 and T.2 - have been updated and expanded.
Table 14 - has been eliminated; Tables 15 to 17 have been renumbered as
Tables 14 to 16.
Good luck!!
Frank Weston
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