Hooks and his excellent staff not only publish the Official Reports, the permanent record of the decisions and proceedings of the New York State courts, but also publish and maintain the Official Style Manual, which has long served as the authoritative reference work on legal citation for the New York courts and the lawyers who practice before them. Hooks, for inviting me to submit this Foreword to the newly revised 2017 Official Style Manual of the New York State Law Reporting Bureau. See chart (to the right) for a list of the new abbreviations.I want to thank our State Reporter, William J. Removes the separation in previous editions between T6 (abbreviations in institutional author and case names) and T13 (abbreviations in periodical titles). The Bluebook directs the user to T2 online on the Bluebook's website. Removes foreign jurisdictions citation guidance from the back of the Bluebook, in T2. New rule gives guidance for citing photographs and illustrations. Provides direction for how to create a pinpoint citation to video and audio recordings. Use short URLs when possible but only if the URL makes it clear what the source is. for short form citations.ĭate and time for updated online sources-use the date and time when the piece was updated, rather than when it was originally posted. More than two authors for a non-periodical resource-use all author names when particularly relevant.

New section addresses how to cite SCOTUS in chambers opinions.Ĭiting to the U.S. No longer requires a prescribed order of authorities within each signal, instead requires authorities to be organized in a logical manner.

Bluebook abbreviations for words