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FOOTNOTING AND LEGAL CITATION: FOLLOWING THE BLUE BOOK UNIFORM SYSTEM OF CITATION
By: Atty. Patrick Simon PerilloAteneo Law School J.D. ‘08DLSU LMG ‘03
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TOPICS TO DISCUSS AND LEARN
Order of Authorities Primary Secondary
Footnoting Short citation Bibliography Abbreviation of Words
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ORDER OF AUTHORITIES – PRIMARY
Constitution Statutes, treaties and other international
instruments Cases Legislative Documents other than statutes Administrative or executive documents Implementing Rules and Regulations Court Documents including Rules of Court Documents of intergovernmental
organizations
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ORDER OF AUTHORITIES – SECONDARY
Books, Annotations and Treatises Journal Articles Periodical Articles Internet Sources Interviews Papers and Theses Miscellaneous
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CONSTITUTION
Current Constitution:{STATE OR COUNTRY} CONST.
{subdivisions}PHIL. CONST. art. VI, § 11, ¶ 2.
Repealed Constitution:{Year of adoption} {STATE OR
COUNTRY} CONST. {subdivisions} ({year superseded}).
1935 Phil. Const. art. 1, § 1 (superseded
1971).
Small Caps shortcut: CTRL-SHIFT+K
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CODES AND STATUTES Codes
{full title} {SHORT TITLE}, {statute number, {subdivisions} ({year}).
An Act Revising the Penal Code and Other Penal Law {REVISED PENAL CODE], Act No. 3815, art. 2 (1932).
Short citation and subsequent citations:{SHORT TITLE}, {subdivisions}.
REVISED PENAL CODE, arts. 171-173. Id. Id. Art. 180, ¶ 2.
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CODES AND STATUTES Statutes
{full title} [{Short title, if any}], {statute number}, {subdivisions} ({year}).
An Act Penalizing the Making or Drawing and Issuance of a Check Without Sufficient Funds or Credit and for Other Purposes, Batas Pambansa Blg. 22, § 6 (1978).
Short citation and subsequent citations:{Short Title or abbreviated statute number}, {subd.}. B.P. Blg. 22, § 5. Id. Id. § 2.
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CODES AND STATUTES Statutes
An Act Providing for the Recognition and Use of Electronic Commercial and Non-commercial Transactions and Documents, Penalties for Unlawful Use Thereof and For Other Purposes [e-Commerce Act of 2008], Republic Act. No. 8792, § 33 (2000).
Short citation and subsequent citations: E-Commerce Act of 2008, §§ 33-34. Id. Id. § 10.
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CASES (JUDICIAL DECISIONS) Supreme Court Decisions
Reported Cases – General Rule{case name}, {volume number} {Reporter} {first page}, {cited page} ({year}).
Laurel v. Abrogar, 483 SCRA 243, 245 (2006).
Unreported Cases – Exception{case name}, {G.R. Number}Reporter}, {cited page} {date}.
People v. Ramos, G.R. No. 172470, Apr. 8, 2008.
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CASES (JUDICIAL DECISIONS) Short citation and subsequent citations:
Laurel, 483 SCRA at 269. Id. at 255. Id. People v. Ramos, G.R. No. 172470, Apr. 8, 2008. Id.
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CASES (JUDICIAL DECISIONS) Decisions of other Philippine courts
{case name}, {volume number} {Reporter} {first page}, {cited page} ({Court} {year}).
People v. Collantes, 37 O.G. 1804, 1805 (Court of Appeals 1926).
If unreported, follow the same format as that of the Supreme Court’s unreported cases.
(Exception)
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LEGISLATIVE MATERIALS Bills
{title}, {legislature}, {session}, in {publication, if any} {subdivision} ({date}).
H.B. 604, 13th Cong., 2d Sess. (May 12, 2007, in 128 Cong. Rec. S. 7091 (May
19, 2007).
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LEGISLATIVE MATERIALS Bills with hearings held
{title of hearing, including the bill number and committee which held the hearing}, {legislature} {page number} ({year of hearing}) ({parenthetical information about person testifying}).
Benefits for U.S. Victims of International Terrorism: Hearing on S. 1275 Before the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 108th Cong. 2-5 (2003) (statement of William H. Taft, IV, Legal Advisor, Dept. of State).
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LEGISLATIVE MATERIALS Congressional Reports
{title and author, if any} {H.R. or S. to indicate House of Representatives or Senate} REP. NO. {Number of Congress}-{Number of Report}, at {page number} ({year}).
H.R. REP. NO. 99-226, at 8 (1985). Congressional Journals
{volume, if any} {JOURNAL OF CHAMBER OF CONGRESS} {journal number}, {legislature}, {session} ({date}).
SENATE JOURNAL 722, 13th Cong. 1st Reg. Sess., Senate Sess. No. 67 (Mar. 7, 2005).
68 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 14, 13th Cong., 1st Reg. Sess. (May 10-11, 2005).
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EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATERIALS
{issuing agency}, {title, if any}, {issuance or series number, if any}, {volume} {official source, if any} {page or section number} ({date}).
Bureau of Internal Revenue, Revenue Memorandum Circular No. 37-93, 89 O.G. 4476 (Aug. 9, 1993).
Bureau of Internal Revenue, Rev. Reg. No. 16, 2005, Effectivity Clause (Sep. 1, 2005).
Office of the President, Instituting the Presidential Award for Heroism in Times of Disaster, Executive Order No. 421 (Sep. 7, 1990).
Securities and Exchange Commission, Code of Corporate Governance, SEC Memorandum Circular No. 2, Series of 2002 (Apr. 5, 2002).
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IMPLEMENTING RULES AND REGULATIONS
{title of statute}, {subdivisions} ({year}).
Rules and Regulations Implementing the Anti-Violence against Women and Their Children Act of 2004, § 14 (a) (2004).
Id. Rules and Regulations Implementing the e-
Commerce Act of 2000, § 1 (2000). Id. § 5.
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RULES OF COURT{TITLE OF RULES}, {rule}, {subdivisions}.
2000 REVISED RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, rule 110, § 4.
Id. 1997 RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, rule 41, § 2
(a). Id. 1991 Revised Rules on Summary Procedure, §
10. Id.
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BOOKS, ANNOTATIONS, TREATISES Books and Treatises – General Rule:
{AUTHOR}, {TITLE} {cited page} ({year} or {edition number} {year} or {year of edition}).
RUBEN F. BALANE, JOTTINGS IN CIVIL LAW: SUCCESSION 53 (2d ed. 2002).
JOAQUIN G. BERNAS, S.J., THE 1987 CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES: A COMMENTARY 1195 (2003 ed.)
SAMUEL WILLISTON, A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF CONTRACTS, ADMINISTRATIVE LAW TREATISE 120-21 (1990).
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BOOKS, ANNOTATIONS, TREATISES Books and Treatises – Multi-Volume Work
{volume number} {AUTHOR}, {TITLE} {cited page} ({year} or {edition number} {year} or {year of edition}). 4 OSCAR B. HERRERA, REMEDIAL LAW 150 (2001
ed.)
Books and Treatises – With Editor or Translator{AUTHOR}, {TITLE} {cited page} ({Editor or translator} {ed(s). or trans.}, {year}). ADAM SMITH, THE WEALTH OF NATIONS 30-31
(Edwin Cannan ed., 2000). WOMEN AND LANGUAGE IN LITERATURE AND
SOCIETY 284-99 (Ruth Broker, et al., eds., 1980).
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BOOKS, ANNOTATIONS, TREATISES Books and Treatises – 2 Authors
{AUTHOR 1} & {AUTHOR 2}, {TITLE} {cited page} ({year} or {edition number} {year} or {year of edition}). JUSTICE JOSE C. VITUG & JUDGE ERNESTO D.
ACOSTA, TAX LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE 150 (2d ed. 2000).
Books and Treatises – More than 2 authors{AUTHOR 1} ET AL., {TITLE} {cited page} ({year} or {edition number} {year} or {year of edition}). JOSUE N. BELLOSILLO, ET AL., OMNIBUS
ELECTION CODE 181 (2007).
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BOOKS, ANNOTATIONS, TREATISES Books and Treatises – Short citation and
subsequent citations:
BALANE, supra note 50, at 104. Id. VITUG & ACOSTA, supra note 52, at 205. CRUZ, ET AL., supra note 68, at 305. Id. Id. at 288. 3 REGALADO, supra note 80, at 206. Id. at 299.
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BOOKS, ANNOTATIONS, TREATISES Annotations {Author}, Annotation, {Title}, {volume
number} {Reporter} {first page}, {cited page} ({year}).
Jorge R. Coquia, Annotation, The National Computerized Identification Reference System as Violation of the Right to Privacy: A Review of the Principles and Jurisprudence on Privacy as Human Rights, 293 SCRA 201, 203 (1998).
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JOURNAL ARTICLES {Author}, {Title}, {volume number}
{JOURNAL} {first page, {cited page} ({year}).
Patrick Simon S. Perillo, Transporting the Concept of Creeping Expropriation from de Lege Ferenda to de Lege Lata: Concretizing the Nebulous under International Law 53 ATENEO L.J. 434, 488 (2008).
Short citation and subsequent citations: Perillo, supra note 43, at 489-90. Id. Id. at 488.
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PERIODICALS Magazine
{Author}, {Title}, {NAME OF MAGAZINE}, {date}, at {first page of article}. Usha Tankha, Transforming Misfortune into
Opportunity, ADB REV., Apr.-May 2006, at 30.
Newspaper Article{Author}, {Headline}, {ABBREVIATION OF NEWSPAPER}, {date of article}, at {page on which article appears}. John M. Broder, Clinton Adamant on 3D World
Role in Climate Accord, N.Y. TIMES, Dec. 12, 1997, at A1.
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INTERNET SOURCES{Author if available}, {title}, available at {internet address/website} (last accessed {date}).
Barry M. Leiner, et al., A Brief History of the Internet, available at http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml#Introduction (last accessed Apr. 26, 2007).
Protected Area and Wildlife Bureau, Tamaraw Conservation Project, available at http://www.pawb.gov.ph/progs/tamaraw.htm (last accessed Dec. 27, 2002).
Note: Remove hyperlink.
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INTERVIEWS In-person Interview
{Name}, {Title}, {Institutional Affiliation, if any, of the interviewee}, in {location of the interview} ({date of the interview}).
Interview with Dick Cheney, Vice-President, United States of America, in Washington, D.C. (Oct. 24, 2006).
Telephone Interview {Name}, {Title}, {Institutional Affiliation, if any,
of the interviewee}, in {location of the interview} ({date of the interview}).
Telephone Interview with Orhan Pamuk, in Stockholm (Oct. 12, 2006).
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INTERVIEWS Interview not personally conducted by the
author
{Name of interviewer}, {Name of interviewee}, {Title}, {Institutional Affiliation, if any, of the interviewee}, in {location of the interview} ({date of the interview}).
Interview by Harry Keisler with Kofi Annan, Secretary General, United Nations, in University of California, Berkeley (Apr. 19, 1998).
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THESES{Author}, {Title} ({date}) ({indicate type of work}, {institution that awarded the degree}) ({where it can be found}). Archie E. Blake, Daubert and Reality: A Survey of
Nevada Judges (1996) (unpublished thesis, University of Nevada) (on file with Reno Library, University of Nevada).
Rosalyn C. Rayco, Cyber-Prostitution at a Click of a Button: Evaluating the Applicability of Prostitution Statutes in Criminalizing Paid Video-based Cybersex (2006) (unpublished J.D. thesis, Ateneo de Manila University) (on file with the Professional Schools Library, Ateneo de Manila University).
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BASIC FOREIGN MATERIALS United Nations
General Assembly Resolutions
{Resolution number}, {at page number, if if possible, paragraph number}, U.N. GAOR, {session or volume number}, {supplement or annex number}, {designation} ({year}).
G.A. Res. 2131, at 107-08, U.N. GAOR, 20th Sess., Supp. No. 12, U.N. Doc. A/6012 (1965).
G.A. Res. 57/377, ¶ 3, U.N. Doc. A/Res/57/377 (July 3, 2003).
G.A. Res. 2131, supra note 34, at 2.
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BASIC FOREIGN MATERIALS United Nations
Reports
{name of issuing body}, [{abbreviation}], {sub-committee that prepared the report}, {title of the report}, {paragraph number or the pinpoint cite}, U.N. Doc. {document number} ({date}) ({author included, if available}).
U.N. Econ. & Soc. Council [ECOSOC], United Nations Forum on Forests, Report of the Seventh Session, Chapt. I, A.1.1. at 1, U.N. Doc. E/CN.18/2007/8 (Feb. 24, 2006 and Apr. 16-27, 2007).
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BASIC FOREIGN MATERIALS Treaties, Conventions, Protocols
{name of agreement}, {subdivision, if cited only in part}, {full date of signing}, {international treaty sources}. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Dec.
10, 1982, Preamble, 1983 U.N.T.S. 3 [hereinafter UNCLOS].
Convention on the Rights of the Child, Nov. 20, 1989, art. 19, 1577 U.N.T.S. 3 [hereinafter CRC].
Id. art. 23. UNCLOS, supra note 93, at art. 192. Treaty of Amity and Economic Relations, U.S.-Thail.,
June 8, 1968, 652 U.N.T.S. 253 [hereinafter T.E.A.R.].
Exception: U.N. CHARTER, art. 43, ¶ 1.
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BASIC FOREIGN MATERIALS Cases
{Case name}, ({parties’ name, except if it is an advisory opinion}), {volume number and name of publication} {case number}, {page number} ({date}).
Asylum (Colom. V. Peru), 1950 I.C.J. 266, 277-78 (Nov. 20, 1950).
Legal Status of Eastern Greenland Case, 1933 P.C.I.J. Ser. A/B No. 53, Ser. C., vol. 62, 43, 109, vol. 63, 858 (Apr. 5, 1933).
Asylum, 1950 I.C.J. at 278.