Saturday, December 24, 2011

Help with The Bluebook (Citation)?

I'm having trouble turning this into the correct citation. A little help is much needed so I can finish the other 30 citations.





Instructions: Correct citations using the current edition of The Bluebook. Please use the form for court documents and legal memopanda. Please provide any missing information. Use the regional reporters for the state citations unless instructed otherwise.





Oprah Winfrey vs. Ellen Degeneres, a 2002 case from the Georgia Court of Appeals, located in volume 321 of the South Eastern Regional Reporter, Second Series page 545, with quoted material on pages 550 to 560. Assume this is a “stand-alone” citation





Thank you for your help.|||*Winfrey v. DeGeneres*, 321 S.E.2d 545, 550-60 (Ga. Ct. App. 2002).





See Bluebook Rule 10, generally. Omit first names of individuals (unless part of a business name) as per 10.2.1(g). Name of the case (A v. B) goes in italics.





Reporter abbreviation and court abbreviation found under T1, Georgia (p. 237). Note the lack of spaces within "S.E.2d" abbreviation.





If the pincite is a page range, drop any repetitive digits other than the final two digits as per B4.1.2 (p. 9).





Also, Ellen DeGeneres typically capitalizes the G in her surname. So you might check the original again.

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