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Bluebook Journal Article Citation Generator

Format citations for law-review footnotes or court documents. Enter your source details, generate the citation and copy it into your work.

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This form covers a journal whose page numbering continues across the volume. Enter its abbreviated journal name, the article’s first page and any pinpoint. A journal whose issues each restart at page 1 uses a different format.

Enter your source details

* marks required fields.

What are you writing?

The citation’s typography changes to match your choice. Bluepages uses italics instead of underlining.

Source details

Author(s), in citation form (optional)

Use full names in source order, such as Alice Green & Brian White. Enter any required et al. wording yourself.

Article title

Use title case.

Journal volume

Abbreviated journal name

For example, Harv. L. Rev. Use the appropriate Bluebook abbreviation.

Article’s first page

The opening page, rather than the full article range.

Page(s) you are citing (optional)

For example, 42, 956–958, or 47 n.1. Leave blank when referring to the work as a whole.

Publication year

Use four digits.

The volume number is the publication year

For a journal identified by its year, the tool omits a repeated year at the end.

Using Bluebook citations

Whitepages is used for law-review footnotes; Bluepages is used for court documents and legal memoranda. This tool formats the source details you enter. Use the citation-form abbreviations for cases, reporters, courts and journals, as explained in our Bluebook citation guide.

Check the publisher’s 22nd-edition Quick Style Guide for basic citation forms. The UC Davis guide to online and electronic sources explains the newer video, podcast and AI rules. AI responses use the exact prompt and the location of the saved PDF; their format differs from a citation to the AI tool’s homepage.

A short case citation depends on the surrounding text. This tool supplies one when you enter a short name and pinpoint; it does not automatically choose id. or supra without that context.

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