Bluebook: capitalisation & unreported cases
I have two queries on the Bluebook Law Review :
1. My references are entered with minimal capitalisation. In some other styles they are automatically changed to first letter capitalisation for longer words - but this does not happen for the Bluebook, although that is the requirement of the style.
2. Unreported cases - Bluebook style is not very clear, but at minimum should include name of court, docket/case number, and date of judgment. Instead, the footnote is just giving me the name of the case followed by a comma and then the year in brackets. The cases I want to cite are in national courts (not the US) or regional courts (in Africa, Americas or Europe) - it is common for national cases to be available only at an online link or in PDF only.
thank you for any help
1. My references are entered with minimal capitalisation. In some other styles they are automatically changed to first letter capitalisation for longer words - but this does not happen for the Bluebook, although that is the requirement of the style.
2. Unreported cases - Bluebook style is not very clear, but at minimum should include name of court, docket/case number, and date of judgment. Instead, the footnote is just giving me the name of the case followed by a comma and then the year in brackets. The cases I want to cite are in national courts (not the US) or regional courts (in Africa, Americas or Europe) - it is common for national cases to be available only at an online link or in PDF only.
thank you for any help
Yes, legal citations are a nightmare, but at least if the name of court, docket number and full date of judgment are given by Zotero, editing them into the correct style is easier.
Please check:
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/raw/1801286195361e1c01c3d3e8b288aded01316df8/bluebook-law-review.csl
Will you be able to adjust the referencing for unreported cases, and add publisher for reports with individual authors?
Unreported cases
What I have:
Case name (normal font, first letter caps), (year), URL
What I would like is to delete the year in brackets and add the text between <<< & >>> , like this :
Case name, <<< docket number, name of court (in full on first citation), judgment dated (with full date month, day, year), available at >>> URL
This may or may not be the correct format, but it gives me (and others) the necessary information to be able to edit it further.
Reports published by an institution but with individual authors:
What I have :
NAME OF INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR (SMALL CAPS), Name of report (italics, first letter caps), (year), URL.
What I would like is to add the name of the institutional author after the individual author, as follows:
NAME OF INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR (SMALL CAPS), NAME OF INSTITUTION (SMALL CAPS), Name of report (italics, first letter caps), (year), URL.
I think this is what the Bluebook wants, from available online sources.
Thank you.
PATRÍCIA JERÓNIMO, Report on Citizenship Law: Angola, (2019), https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/62284.
Which Chicago would render as:
Patrícia Jerónimo, ‘Report on Citizenship Law: Angola’, GLOBALCIT Country Report (Fiesole: European University Institute, April 2019), https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/62284.
According to the advice at the link below, the Bluebook wants it to be:
PATRÍCIA JERÓNIMO, EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, Report on Citizenship Law: Angola, (2019), https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/62284.
But you may know better than me....
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https://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/bluebook-legal-citation/how-to-cite/books-reports-treatises
Institutional Authors
If the author of a work is an institution, provide the complete name.
4 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, The American Law of Mining 98 (2d ed. 1984).
NOTE: In some circumstances, a particular individual within an institution will be given authorial credit. If this is the case, provide the individual's name, followed by the institutional name separated by a comma.
If the institutions is merely a publisher -- as is surely the case for the EUI in your example -- I'd add it as an institution and Zotero will treat it as a publisher, i.e. cite it in Chicago style but not in Bluebook.
Anyway, I hope you can add some information to what is shown for the unreported cases?