Do You Italicize Citing in Bluebook?

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Use Italics for the Short Form of Case Citations Case Citations a Legal Citation Is a "Reference to a Legal Precedent or Authority, Such as a Case, Statute, or...

Do You Italicize Citing in Bluebook?

Use Italics for the short form of case citations

case citations
A legal citation is a "reference to a legal precedent or authority, such as a case, statute, or treatise, that either substantiates or contradicts a given position." Where cases are published on paper, the citation usually contains the following information: Court that issued the decision. Report title. Volume number.
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. Use Italics for article titles, introductory signals, procedural phrases in case names, and explanatory signals in citations. Italicize punctuation only when it falls within italicized material in a citation.

Should citation be italicized?

Label the page Work Cited (do not italicize, bold or underline the words Works Cited or put them in quotation marks) and center the words Works Cited at the top of the page. ... Double space all citations. Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations five spaces so that you create a hanging indent.

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How do you cite a citation Bluebook?

A basic citation to a book includes the following six elements:
  1. Volume number (for multivolume works)
  2. Author's full name as it appears on the title page.
  3. Title of the book (italicized or underlined)
  4. Page, section, or paragraph cited.
  5. Edition (for works with multiple editions)
  6. Year of publication.
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