The bluebooks requirement for the year of a statute im currently finishing up the final proofing of an article that is very heavy on statutory citations. Subscriber rewards exclusive offers, discounts and invitations. The regulatory bodies also enforce laws and regulations. T1 says the format for wests wyoming statutes annotatedis wyo. If you find the statute online, technically you have to check the bound volumes and supplements for the year. The precise format of a statutory citation depends on a number of factors. Indeed, firstyear legal writing professors may wish to rely on the bluepages. Bluebooking california statutes bluebooking and legal. Unofficial purdons pennsylvania statutes from westlaw. When the statute is subsequently discussed in the text it is not necessary to give the year.
Section 9104 of wests wyoming statutes annotated, published by west. A short primer on bluebook citation formats for federal and state cases and statutes. Official commonwealth publication of pennsylvania laws can be found in smiths laws of pennsylvania 1700 through nov. Statute citations points of difference in citation. However, the basic format of a statutory citation is as follows. Statutes bluebook basics libguides at university of richmond. Statutes bluebook legal citation tarlton law library. Bluebook citation in scholarly legal writing georgetown law.
A bluebook guide for law students suffolk university. Citing statutes bluebook guide guides at georgetown. Purdons pennsylvania statutes is not an official publication of the commonwealth of pennsylvania. If a section is partly updated in the supplement, then cite to both years. For information concerning requirements of these state boards and state. To find the year, locate the volume that includes your statute and then use in order of preference the year on the spine, then the year on the title page, then the year r12. With that in mind, here is a list of some of the more obscure bluebook rules. For example, constitutions are listed before statutes, which are listed before cases. For many years, the authoritative reference work on legal citation was a manual. You should give the statute s name and original section number only if it is commonly cited that way or if it would aid the identification of the statue. If possible, you should cite to the current official code or the supplement. A new edition of the official united states code is published every six years, with a cumulative supplement published annually.