Bluebook 21st Edition Citation

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

For legal writing style: Use /writing-legal skill (Volokh) For general writing: Use /writing skill (Strunk & White)