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Blue Book General Guide To Formatting A Footnote:: Italics) Page

This document provides guidelines for formatting footnotes and bibliographies in the Blue Book style. It lists examples of how to cite different sources like books, articles, websites, and collections of papers in footnotes and a bibliography. Footnotes should be used at the end of each page and include the author's name, title, publisher details, and page number being cited. The bibliography lists sources alphabetically by author's last name and includes title, publisher, date, and other identifying information for books, articles, websites, and other media.

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Blue Book General Guide To Formatting A Footnote:: Italics) Page

This document provides guidelines for formatting footnotes and bibliographies in the Blue Book style. It lists examples of how to cite different sources like books, articles, websites, and collections of papers in footnotes and a bibliography. Footnotes should be used at the end of each page and include the author's name, title, publisher details, and page number being cited. The bibliography lists sources alphabetically by author's last name and includes title, publisher, date, and other identifying information for books, articles, websites, and other media.

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BLUE BOOK

General Guide to Formatting a Footnote:


Footnotes must be used at the last part of each page. Refer the following styleBooks: Authors name, Title of the book(in italics). (Place of publication: Publishers name year)
page
e.g.- A. Williams, Human Health and Environment. (Allahabad: Suryanshu Law Publications
2011) 79.
Articles: Authors name, Title of the paper, vol.Issue--, year name of journal (in
italics) page
e.g.- A. Williams, Child Rights in India, vol. 48 Issue 2, 2011 Journal of Human Rights 22-52.

Collection of articles/papers in book: Authors name, Title of the paper in: Editors name, Title
of the book (in italics). (Place of publication: Publishers name year) page
e.g.- Prabhash P., Right to Access Medicine and IPR in: A. Williams, Human Health and
Environment. (Ghazipur: SPS Publications 2011) 97.
Newspaper: Authors name, Title, date (day), name of newspaper (in italics), page
e.g.- Divyanshu, Separation of Powers, 27th May 2011 (Friday) The Legal Observer, 2
Website: Authors name, Title of the paper, vol.Issue--, year name of Journal (in italics)
page available at www.oxford.org, accessed on (date of access)
e.g.- Peter K. Yu, The Objectives and Principles of the TRIPS Agreement, available
at http://www.peteryu.com/correa.pdf, accessed on 27/09/2013

General Guide to Formatting a Bibliography


For a book:
Author (last name first). Title of the book. City: Publisher, Date of publication.
EXAMPLE: Dahl, Roald: The BFG. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982.

For an Article:
Author (last name first): Title of the Article, Name of Journal (in italics), Volume (Year), and
Page Number.
EXAMPLE: Achtenberg, Jack: "Legal Writing and Research: The Neglected Orphan., U. of
Miami L.R. 29 (1975): 218-59.
For an encyclopaedia:
Encyclopaedia Title, Edition Date. Volume Number, "Article Title," page numbers.
EXAMPLE: The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1997. Volume 7, "Gorillas," pp. 50-51.
For a magazine:
Author (last name first), "Article Title." Name of magazine. Volume number, (Date): page
numbers.
EXAMPLE: Jordan, Jennifer, "Filming at the Top of the World." Museum of Science Magazine.
Volume 47, No. 1, (Winter 1998): p. 11.
For a newspaper:
Author (last name first), "Article Title." Name of newspaper, city, state of publication. (date):
edition if available, section, page number(s).
EXAMPLE: Powers, Ann, "New Tune for the Material Girl." The New York Times, New York,
NY. (3/1/98): Atlantic Region, Section 2, p. 34.
For a Website:
Complete URL form where you have gathered the content
EXAMPLE: http://www.slideshare.net/Rspeener/intellectual-propertypdf
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