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>To: Franklin Weston <faw@pwa.acusd.edu>,law-lib <law-lib@ucdavis.edu>
>From: Rick Ducey <Duceyre@centum.utulsa.edu>
>Subject: Re: New Printing of Bluebook
>
>Thanks for this information.
>
>Related to the public domain citation portion of Rule 10.3.1, does anyone
>know which journals are actually following that rule by providing the
>official public domain citation for cases from courts that have adopted a
>form of public domain citation?
>
>Maybe academic librarians could ask the editors of those journals published
>at your law school?
>
>I have called the Harvard Law Review Assn. once, but did not receive
>helpful information. I also inquired as to why they made a change to Rule
>12.8.5 now requiring that, for restatements, you give the year the
>restatement was published, rather than the year it was adopted (as was
>required by previous editions) The students involved with a new edition
>have usually graduated by the time the new edition is actually published.
>They do not seem to maintain any meaningful record of the "history" behind
>the change.
>
>
>Thanks in advance for any assistance in this regard.
>
>Rick Ducey
>
>At 08:08 AM 9/2/98 -0700, Franklin Weston 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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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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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