I forwarded your note to Prof Dickerson who wrote a definitive study of the
Blue Book at 26 Stetson Law Review 53. Below is her reply:
>Actually, the Bluebook is revised every 5 years, with the new edition due
>in 2001. The last edition, the 16th edition, first appeared in August
>1996. A history of the Bluebook, along with a detailed description of
>major changes in the 16th edition appears at: 26 Stetson Law Review 53
>(1996); volume 6 of the Scribes Journal of Legal Writing (due out any day)
>also contains an article on the 10 most significant changes in the 16th
>edition of the Bluebook.
Lamar
At 08:08 AM 9/2/1998 -0700, you wrote:
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>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.
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>The newest copy [16th edition, Sixth Printing 1998] of the Bluebook has
>arrived. These are some of the "noteworthy changes" included this latest
>printing:
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>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.
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>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.
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>Rule 15.1 Author, Editor, and Translator - Modified to require the full
>name as it appears on the publication being cited.
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>Rule 16.1 Same as Rule 15.1, but for periodicals.
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>Rule 17.3.3 Internet Sources - Guidance for citing materials from the
>Internet.
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>Rule 19 Foreign Materials - Requires that citations conform closely to
>local citation practice of the jurisdictions whose material in being
>cited.
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>Table T.2 - Revised and expanded and should be used in conjunction with
>Rule 19 in determining citation format.
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>Rule 20.8.4 WTO and GATT - New citation format for these organizations.
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>Tables T.1 and T.2 - have been updated and expanded.
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>Table 14 - has been eliminated; Tables 15 to 17 have been renumbered as
>Tables 14 to 16.
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>Good luck!!
>
>Frank Weston
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