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Bluebook Wednesday Tip #7: Direct Quotes

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #8: Short Case Cites

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #9: Parentheticals

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #10: Order of Authorities

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #11: Introductory Signals

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #12: Introductory Signals

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #13: Introductory Signals

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #14: Case Names

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #15: Hereinafter

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #16: International Sources

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #17: US Jurisdictions

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #18: Typefaces

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #19: Court Documents

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #20: United States

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #21: Websites

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #22: Periodical Materials

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #23: Authors

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #24: Supra

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #25: Internal Cross References

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #26: Numbers

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #27: Reporters

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #28: Symbols

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #29: Case Name Abbreviations

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #30: Statute Years

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #31: Short Cites After Footnote

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #32: Footnote Call Numbers

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #33: Short Cite Case After Parenthetical

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #34: Quoted or Cited Authorities

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #35: The Rule of 5

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #36: Smalls Caps

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #37: Spacing

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #38: Citation Sentences

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #39: Judges

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #40: Record Cites

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #41: Slave Cases

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #42: Deposition Cites

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #43: Citing Footnotes

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #44: Restatements

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #45: Setting Up Your Bluebook

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #46: Capitalization

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #47: Commas

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #48: Dates

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #49: Brackets

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #50: Ellipses

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #51: Quotation Marks

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #52: Nested Parentheticals

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #53: Social Media

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #54: Citation Clauses

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #55: Subdivisions

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #56: Case Cite Flowcharts

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #57: Internet Cite Flowcharts

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #58: Navigating the Bluebook

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #59: Introductory Signals Flowchart

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #60: Italicization for Style

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #61: Forthcoming Publications

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #62: Tricky Rules

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #63: Primary and Subsequent Case History

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #64: Asterisks as Ellipses

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #65: Archiving URLs

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #66: Using the Online Bluebook

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #67: Case Cites in the Whitepages

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #68: Journal Cites in the Whitepages

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #69: Internet Cites in the Whitepages

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #70: Using T6

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #71: Using T1

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #72: Punctuation in Direct Quotes

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #73: Cleaned Up

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #74: The Bluebook & Page Limits

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #75: (Citing) Versus (Citation Omitted)

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #76: Moving In To Your Bluebook

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #77: Executive Orders

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #78: Undoing Microsoft Word Autocorrect

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #79: Beware Copying From Westlaw

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #80: The Whitepages The Basics

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #81: The Bluepages And The Whitepages

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #84: Contrast

Bluebook Wednesday Tip #85: Internal Cross-References