An Overview of the Fifth Edition

Overall Organization Part 1, Introductory Material Part 2, Citation Basics Part 3, Citing Specific Sources Part 4, Electronic Sources Part 5, Incorporating Citations into Documents Part 6, Quotations Part 7, Appendices

Fewer Rules & Appendices Number of rules

reduced from 49 to 40

Primary authorities treated consistently

Secondary source groupings

Seven appendices

Appendices Appendix 1: Primary Sources by

Jurisdiction Appendix 2: Local Court

Citation Rules Appendix 3: General

Abbreviations Appendix 4: Court

Abbreviations Appendix 5: Periodical

Abbreviations Appendix 6: Federal Taxation

Materials Appendix 7: Federal Agencies

A Single Set of Rules Maintains focus on formatting for

practice-based documents

But where scholarly writing requires different formatting or other constraints, incorporates relevant subsections and examples into same source rule

Academic Footnote Formats Rules specially marked to prevent user

confusion with practice-based formats

Rules included within specific source rules Fast Formats examples

No More FlippingInstead of this . . .

This . . .

Special Tools for the User Expanded use of spacing

triangles

Official source stars (Appendix 1)

Non-consecutively paginated periodical stars (Appendix 5)

Templates & Illustrations Full citation format template and illustration

Identifies components Sets out representative citation, with component labels,

spacing triangles

Fast Formats

Quick reference guides for specific sources

Expanded to include examples of academic footnote formats, short-form citations

List on inside cover

Sidebars and Charts Sidebars furnish

helpful contextual or background information relevant for specific sources

Charts collect frequently used terms, abbreviations, and similar materials with specific source rules

Examples Updated Expanded Revised

Appendix 1: Jurisdictional tables of primary authorities

Appendix 2: Local rules

Teacher’s Manual Full description of changes in fifth edition Teaching notes for various sources PowerPoint slide presentations Appendices with correlation tables

ALWD 4th edition ALWD 5th edition ALWD Bluebook Bluebook ALWD

ALWD Guide to Legal Citation

Includes Online Exercises The ALWD Online Companion

Brooke Bowman Jessica Clark Cassandra Hill Erin Karsman Samantha Moppett