Online Reference Generator to Ease Your Academic Burden

As a law student, you won’t have any other choice but to delve into citing norms. Legal citation is different from any other kind of citation, the difference being mostly in its importance and detailed nature. While regular academic papers rely on other works to support their claims, legal papers wouldn’t even have the right to exist without all of the judgments and opinions cited in them.

In the legal area, citations acquire a more practical meaning. That’s probably why so many rules exist as to how to cite legal sources.

The majority of norms are gathered in the style guide called the Bluebook – the most extensive compilation of norms that is used most frequently across the U.S. Since its origination a couple of decades ago, it has lived through multiple editions and is now in its 20^th edition.

There is no chance you will be able to live through law school without getting intimately familiar with the Bluebook. We, however, aim to make the process less stressful for you by creating a tool that will do your citations for you.

The reasons to use this free Bluebook citation generator for ebooks are:

• A chance to save LOTS of time. There is a lot of formatting included in citations – italics, underlining, commas, colons, etc. With our generator, you won’t have to think about it as the tool will do the formatting for you.
• The ability to prevent mistakes. It’s easy to miss a formatting norm or a comma – the generator is free from human mistakes and is more reliable than a real editor.
• Sustainability in citing. If you try gathering citing norms for your sources yourself, there is a chance you will get different instructions from different authorities. Our Bluebook format citation generator for ebook uses an established format and will apply this format to all of the citations you generate.

You can use this generator for all kinds of sources – whether online or hard-copy ones.

To create a Bluebook in-text citation for ebook with the use of this tool, you will have to:

• Select the style of citation
• Select the source you are citing
• Enter relevant information in the corresponding fields
• Click on “Generate”
• Have a citation generated and insert it into an appropriate place

E-books, like other academic sources, are usually cited in footnotes.

It is simple to follow the norms of the Bluebook referencing style for ebook with the use of our generator. You won’t have to worry about the specifics of formatting and other details. You simply need to know which source you are citing and we will take care of the rest.

As the most extensive complication of citing norms available, the Bluebook is rather difficult to use. It includes four parts where the rules on citing of different legal documents and academic sources are specified.

• Chapter one is a condensed version of the entire guide with the most frequently used norms. It was created to simplify using the guide, ridding you from the need to delve into detailed norms.
• Chapter two contains rules on citing specific documents – you should consult this part when defining the format for citing a specific document.
• Chapter three contains tables with specific data, such as lists of abbreviations to be used.
• Chapter four is an index to be used for easier navigation.

A standard ebook citation includes the following elements: volume number, author’s name, the title of the book, section, paragraph or page number of the book cited, edition and year of publication.

The following is to be taken into account: the volume number is specified only if the book is a multi-volume work.

If the book has more than one author, additional rules apply. Two authors’ names are provided in the sequence as they appear in the original source, joined by an ampersand. Three names can be provided if relevant for the citation or reduced to just one name with “et al.” after it. Each name should be written as it is in the original source but without appended titles, such as Ph.D.

For books without individual authors, you can include the institution’s name in the citation. If both an individual and an institutional author are provided, include both names in the citation starting with the individual author’s name. If several units of an institution are to be credited in a citation, start from the smallest one and continue with the biggest unit of such institution. If an individual author’s name is to be added as well, then replace the small unit’s name with the author’s.

The title must be italicized or underlined and capitalized. The capitalization follows the Bluebook’s rules – all words except prepositions and conjunctions should be capitalized. The edition number should be in parenthesis. The year of an online edition must be the one specified in the copyright notice.

The guide still treats electronic sources as exceptional cases, but they are getting used more frequently every year. In many cases, an online version of a source is the preferred distribution channel, which is the case with e-books. If the e-book you are citing furnishes all of the required information for a regular format citation, there is no need to indicate that the source is electronic and not a hard copy. The referral to the electronic nature of the source is necessary only when it is hard to obtain the source from other channels and thus doing so will help the reader significantly.

For books available in both formats, use parallel citation to an online source (add “available from” and the URL to the regular citation). If a specific URL cannot be used directly to retrieve the source, then provide a base URL and specify the steps necessary for retrieval.

For any electronic source, a date must be provided as well as placed at the end of the citation in parenthesis.