bluebook
Installation
SKILL.md
Contains Shell Commands
This skill contains shell command directives (!`command`) that may execute system commands. Review carefully before installing.
Bluebook Citation (22nd edition; 21st still reachable)
What this skill carries — grep references/ for any subject the names below miss:
!d=${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}; command -v skill-toc >/dev/null 2>&1 && exec skill-toc "$d"; s=$HOME/.claude/skills/plugin-utils/bin/skill-toc; [ -x "$s" ] && exec "$s" "$d"; echo "(skill-toc unavailable: references and scripts are NOT listed here — install the plugin-utils plugin, or start a new session so its bin/ reaches PATH)"
Citation formatting for law reviews and legal scholarship per The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed. 2020).
Announce: "I’m using the bluebook skill for citation formatting."
When to Use
Invoke this skill for:
- Formatting case citations (federal, state, foreign)
- Statutory and regulatory citations
- Secondary sources (books, articles, treatises)
- Short form citations (id., supra, hereinafter)
- Introductory signals and parentheticals
- Citation sentences vs. citation clauses