20th Edition Harvard Blue Book

HARVARD BLUEBOOK [20TH EDITION]

BOOKS

General Rule:
[Volume Number, if any] [AUTHOR’ S NAME], [TITLE OF THE BOOK ] [Page Number] [(Publisher’s Name Year of Publishing)].

Footnotes

• GLANVILLEWILLIAMS, LEARNING THE LAW 69 (Sweet & Maxwell 2014).
• ALAN REDFERN ET. AL., REDFERN, AND HUNTER ON INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION 211-215 (Kluwer Arbitration 2009).
• 2 DD BASU, CONSTITUTION OF I NDIA 201 (2010).

IOA

• GLANVILLEWILLIAMS, LEARNING THE LAW (Sweet & Maxwell 2014).
• ALAN REDFERN ET. AL., REDFERN, AND HUNTER ON INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION (Kluwer Arbitration 2009).

Multiple Editions, Same Publisher:

[AUTHOR’ S NAME], [TITLE OF THE BOOK ] [Page number] [(Edition Year of Publishing)].

Footnotes

FRANCIS A. CAREY, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 310 (6th ed. 2006).

CASES

General Rule:
[Plaintiff/ Appellant/ Applicant] v. [Defendant/ Respondent], [Citation].

Footnotes

• Guru Nanak Foundation v. Rattan Singh and Sons, AIR 1981 SC 2075.
• Ador Samia Pvt. Ltd. v. Peekay Holdings Ltd., (1998) 8 SCC 572.
• Vodafone International Holdings B.V. v. Union of India and Anr., (2012) 341 ITR 1 (SC).

IOA

• Guru Nanak Foundation v. Rattan Singh and Sons, AIR 1981 SC 2075, 2077.
• Ador Samia Pvt. Ltd. v. Peekay Holdings Ltd., (1998) 8 SCC 572, 578.
• Vodafone International Holdings B.V. v. Union of India and Anr., (2012) 341 ITR 1 (SC), 347.

STATUTES

General Rule:
<Short Title of the Act>, <specific section being referred to>, No. <Act number>, Acts of Parliament, <year of the Act> (<country abbreviation>).

Footnotes

• Banking Regulation Act, 1949, § 3, No. 10, Acts of Parliament, 1949 (India).

IOA

• Banking Regulation Act, 1949, No. 10, Acts of Parliament, 1949 (India).
Note: While citing a State legislation, in place of ‘Acts of Parliament’, use ‘Acts of State Legislature’. Eg: Maharashtra Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1953, § 5, No. 40, Acts of Maharashtra State Legislature, 1953 (India).

CONSTITUTION

• INDIA CONST. art. 1, § 9, cl. 2.
• INDIA CONST. art. 269, amended by The Constitution (Eightieth Amendment) Act, 2000.

ARTICLES

General Rule:
[Author’s name], [Title of the article], [Journal Volume Number] [NAME OF THE JOURNAL (abbreviated)] [Starting Page of the Article], [Pages Cited] [(Year)].


Footnotes

• Emre Öktem, Turkey: Successor or Continuing State of the Ottoman Empire? , 24 LEIDEN J. I NT’L L. 561, 575-576 (2011).
• David E. Graham, Cyber Threats and the Law of War, 4 J. NAT’L SEC. L. & POL’Y 87, 91 (2010).

IOA

• Emre Öktem, Turkey: Successor or Continuing State of the Ottoman Empire? , 24 LEIDEN J. I NT’L L. 561 (2011).
• David E. Graham, Cyber Threats and the Law of War, 4 J. NAT’L SEC. L. & POL’Y 87 (2010).
Accepted abbreviations for most journals can be found here:
https://lib.law.washington.edu/cilp/abbrev.html

ONLINE SOURCES

Online-only Sources

[NAME OFWEBSITE], [URL] [(last visited Date)].
BEN & JERRY’S HOMEMADE ICE CREAM, http://www.benjerry.com (last visited Oct. 6, 2008).

Dynamic webpages, such as blogs

[Name of the author], [Name of the article], [NAME OF THEWEBPAGE] [(Date of access, time of access)], [URL].

Asahi Shimbun, A-Bomb Disease Ruling, JAPANESE L. BLOG (Mar. 27, 2009, 9:29 PM), http://japaneselaw.blogspot.com.

Online source that preserves original pagination, such as a PDF

[Name of the author], [Name of the article], [Journal Volume Number] [Name of the Journal (abbreviated)] [Starting Page of the Article], [Pages Cited] [(Year)], [URL].
Kenneth W. Simons, Retributivists Need Not and Should Not Endorse the Subjectivist Account of Punishment, 109 COLUM. L. R EV.1, 3 (2009),
http://www.columbialawreview.org/Sidebar/volume/109/1_Simons.pdf.

Direct Citations to Internet Sources

[Name of the author], [ Name of the article], [NAME OF THE WEBPAGE] [(Date of publication, time of publication)], [URL].
Eric Posner, More on Section 7 of the Torture Convention, VOLOKH CONSPIRACY (Jan. 29, 2009, 10:04 AM), http://www.volokh.com/posts/1233241458.shtml

Id/ Supra/ Infra
10GLANVILLEWILLIAMS, LEARNING THE LAW 69 (2014).
11Id. at 70.
24GLANVILLE, supra note 10, at 89.