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Build Bluebook Citations From the Legal Record
Enter a court case or statute by its reporter or code, or look up an article, book or web page by URL, DOI, ISBN or title. Check every field, then copy the citation.
Look up a source to fill in the fields automatically, or enter the details yourself. The citation is built from the published style rules, not written by AI.
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Bluebook Citation Generator features
Build legal citations for cases, statutes, books and online sources from the source record in front of you.
Why use it
Keep metadata traceable
Every field is labeled as found by the lookup or edited by you, so you always know where a detail came from.
Review before you submit
Use the result as a drafting aid, then compare every field with the original source and your institution's guide.
Law-review form, stated plainly
Citations follow the Bluebook's law-review form: full citations for footnotes, with case names in roman type. In court documents the Bluepages apply, so italicize case names there.
How to use Bluebook Citation Generator
Find the source
Choose Court case or Statute and type the details, or look up an article, book or web page by URL, DOI, ISBN, title or keywords.
Check the fields
For a case, check the case name, volume, reporter, first page, court and year; for a statute, the title number, code, section and year; for other sources, the authors, title, date and publisher. Fill in anything flagged as missing.
Review the result
Copy the full citation into your footnote, or add it to your list and export the list as .txt.
Verify the source
Open the original publication or authoritative record and apply the style guide required for your work.
Tips for a reliable reference
One source at a time
Enter each case, statute or source on its own and add it to your list; the list keeps the order you add them in.
Copy abbreviations exactly
Type reporter and code abbreviations as they are cited, such as “U.S.”, “F.3d” or “U.S.C.”, and paste DOIs, URLs and ISBNs exactly as they appear.
Do not fill blanks by memory
If a field is flagged as missing, confirm it from the original record instead of guessing a date, author or publisher.
Add what the generator leaves out
Abbreviate case names and courts with the Bluebook tables, and add pin cites, parallel citations and subsequent history yourself; the generator does not create them.
Continue your research workflow
Bluebook Citation Generator FAQs
For articles, books and web pages, yes: give it a URL, DOI, ISBN or keywords and it queries Crossref, Open Library or the page's own citation metadata. Cases and statutes are entered by hand. Nothing is invented: anything you or the source leave out stays empty and is flagged.
The form flags it as missing. Fill it in from the original record and the citation updates; nothing is guessed.
Yes. Choose “Add to bibliography” after each source. The list keeps your order, each entry a full Bluebook citation, and you can copy it or export it as .txt.
Reported cases, built from the case name, volume, reporter, first page, court and year (e.g. Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)), and code sections, built from the title number, code, section and year (e.g. 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (2018)). Pin cites, parallel citations, subsequent history and session laws are not built in.
No. citation-js formats it with the published Citation Style Language (CSL) definition of Bluebook law-review style, so the same details always give the same citation.
Yes. Courts have local citation rules, and law reviews and legal writing programs add their own conventions. This page uses the Bluebook's law-review form (case names in roman type in full citations); court documents follow the Bluepages, where case names are italicized.
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