Citation Resources

Resources Regarding Plagiarism and Proper Attribution

Law School Plagiarism vs. Proper Attribution, from the Legal Writing Institute, is an online guide to plagiarism and proper attribution.  The website includes exercises. 

Resources Regarding Citation Mechanics

Introduction to Basic Legal Citation, courtesy of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University, offers an excellent online introduction to, and explanation of, legal citation.  The site references both the Bluebook and the ALWD Citation Manual.  It also includes practitioner norms (which sometimes reflect usage of neither book) and discusses the debate about citation forms.

ALWD Citation Manual Resources, found at the ALWD website, provides various support materials for both the first and second editions of the citation manual.

In Blue Tips, the editors of A Uniform System of Citation ("The Bluebook"), provide authoritative, regularly updated, searchable guidance on citation questions.