Maroonbook

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The Maroonbook is a system of legal citation that intends to be simpler and more straightforward than the more widely used Bluebook . [1] It was developed at the University of Chicago and is the citation system for the University of Chicago Law Review . As a simplified and modernized citation method, it tends to be closer to the Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities in its conventions.

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Conventions

The Maroonbook gives the following examples: [2]

(1) Case names
(2) Titles of periodical articles and articles in edited books
(3) Book and treatise titles

See also

References

  1. Posner, Richard A. (1986). "Goodbye to the Bluebook". University of Chicago Law Review. 53: 1343–1368. doi:10.2307/1599750. JSTOR   1599750. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-05-02.
  2. The University of Chicago Law Review; Cooper, Brenton H.; Fuster, Patrick J.; McAdams, John P., eds. (2018). "Rule 1: Typefaces" (PDF). The Maroonbook: The University of Chicago Manual of Legal Citation (PDF). p. 1.