Guides: Information for USD Law Journal Members: The Bluebook, Twenty-Second Edition

Comparing the Twenty-First and Twenty-Second Editions of The Bluebook

Rule	21^st Edition	22^nd Edition
Rule 1.2 New signal – “contrast”	New to the 22^nd Edition	Contrast Timbs v. Indiana, 586 U.S. 146, 150 (2019) (incorporating the Excessive Fines Clause through the Due Process Clause), with id. at 157–58 (Thomas, J., concurring in the judgment) (reaching the same result through the Privileges or Immunities Clause).
Rule 10.8.3 Clarification, multidistrict litigation	Complaint at 17, Kelly v. Wyman, 294 F. Supp. 893 (S.D.N.Y. 1968) (No. 68 Civ. 394).	Complaint at 17, Kelly v. Wyman, 294 F. Supp. 893 (S.D.N.Y. 1968) (No. 68 Civ. 394). Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment at 2, In re 3M Combat Arms Earplug Prods. Liab. Litig., No. 20-CV-47213 (N.D. Fla. July 7, 2022).
Rule 12.4(f) Codification information	Act of July 12, 1985, ch. 223, § 3, 1985 Cal. Legis. Serv. 239, 241 (West) (to be codified at Cal. Ins. Code § 11589.5).	“Permits codification information to be omitted if the statute is not being cited for its present application.”
Rule 14.4 State administrative materials	Rule 14: “Cite state materials by analogy to federal examples.”	Cal. Code. Regs. tit. 2, § 22999 (2024). 2023 Ohio Dep’t of Admin. Servs. Fiscal Year Ann. Rep. 7. Emily Burke, No. 12-0008 RI, 2012 WL 1061151 (Mo. Admin. Hearing Comm’n 2012).
Rule 15.1(d) Pen names	New to the 22^nd Edition	"William Penn" (Jeremiah Everts), Essays on the Present Crisis in the Condition of the American Indians, First Published in the National Intelligencer, Under the Signature of William Penn (Boston, Perkins & Marvin, 1829). Thomas Paine, Common Sense (Philadelphia, R. Bell 1776). Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Union Square & Co. 2024) (1884).
Rule 15.8 Special citation forms for frequently cited works	New additions in the 22^nd Edition	Adds special citations for Wright & Miller’s Federal Practice & Procedure and Moore’s Federal Practice. Expands rule for the Bible to cover major religious texts.
Rule 18 Internet and electronic sources	Basic citation forms in the 21^st Edition remain largely the same in the 22^nd Edition. New citation forms and context are added to the 22^nd Edition.	“Rule 18 has been substantially rewritten both to provide greater clarity surrounding existing rules and to add new rules to cover a greater number of sources, including AI-generated content.” New citation forms include: Artificial intelligence: Large language model generation Artificial intelligence: Search results Electronic storage media: Cloud storage Videographic media: Web-based video Audio media: Streaming services Blockchain sources: Transactions And more Rule 18.2.1(d) now “requires that all online content cited or generated by authors be captured and stored in a permanent setting…. Archiving can be achieved by using a reliable archival tool, or by saving the web-based source in a fixed form such as a PDF, and storing the saved version on file.” Rule 18.3 provides rules for citing AI-generated content.
Rule 20.2.4 Non-English-Language Documents	Required transliteration of all titles, names, and words not in the Roman alphabet.	이민아 [Lee Min Ah], 푸바오 할부지 “이름 부르니 반응… 알아보는듯” [Fu Bao the Panda Installment “You Seem to Recognize . . . When I Call Your Name”], 동아일보 [Dong-a Ilbo] (July 6, 2024, at 07:42 ET), https://www.donga.com/news/ People/article/all/20240706/125795718/2 (on file with author). 董云虎 [Dong Yunhu], 大上海 [Big Shanghai] (2020). नीति आयोग [NITI Aayog], वार्षिक रिपोर्ट [Annual Report] (2023).
Rule 22 and Table T1.5 Tribal Nations	New to the 22^nd Edition	Section 1, SNI Constitution of 1848 (amended 1993), [Const. of the Seneca Nation of Indians of 1848, § 1, (amended 1993)]. Const. of the Comanche Nation art. II, § 1. Waganakising Odawak [Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians] Tribal Code of Law § 13.101 (2023). The People of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians v. Edelberg, No. 18-4723-CR (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians Tribal Ct. Jan. 18, 2019), https://www.pokagonband-nsn.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/18-4723-cropinion andorderondefendantsmotiontosuppress statements-9438.pdf (on file with the Columbia Law Review).
Rule 23 Archival Sources	New to the 22^nd Edition	Provides rules for materials found in archives, primarily “(1) historical documents created before the internet era, (2) documents where a digital file no longer exists, and (3) physical objects.”
Table T1.3 State Jurisdictions	N/A	“Updated to reflect developments in state legal systems.”
Table T6 Abbreviations for titles of medical periodicals	New to the 22^nd Edition	“When citing a medical periodical whose title contains a word not found in this table, use the National Library of Medicine (NLM) abbreviation for that word if available. Search for the journal title in the NLM Catalog (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ nlmcatalog/journals) to find the NLM abbreviation for the journal. Use this method only for words that do not already have a standard Bluebook abbreviation.”
Table T10 Geographic abbreviations	N/A	Modified “to streamline [the table] and to provide more useful abbreviations.” S.D. as abbreviation for San Diego (and South Dakota!)