How to cite a work in a collection

Bluebook (22d ed.) citation format · B15 / R15.5 · Books, periodicals & other secondary

Example

Kay Deaux & Brenda Major, A Social-Psychological Model of Gender, in Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference 89, 89 (Deborah L. Rhode ed., 1990).

More examples

Each of these is checked against the rules on every change to the tool.

• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Law in Science and Science in Law, in Collected Legal Papers 210, 210 (1920).

What the citation needs

Required

• Title of the piece — The title of the piece within the collection.
• Collection title — The collection the piece appears in.
• First page of the piece — The page the source begins on. The page you are citing goes in the pincite.

When they apply

• Author of the piece — The author’s full name as it appears on the publication (R15.1; R16.2).
• Volume — The volume number, which comes before the reporter, code or periodical name.
• Pincite — The exact page (or section, or paragraph) your point is on — not the first page. R1.2(f): pincites are required except after “see generally”.
• Series — The series the source belongs to.
• Editor — The editor’s name, given in the parenthetical with the edition and year (R15.2).
• Translator — The translator’s name (R15.2).
• Publisher — The publisher (R15.4).
• Place of publication — Where the work was published or the event took place.
• Edition — The edition, where it is not the first (R15.4).
• Supplement — The supplement, where the material is in one.
• Year — The year that goes in the date parenthetical at the end of the citation.

In a brief and in a law review

The Bluebook sets citations two ways: the Bluepages for court documents and legal memoranda, the Whitepages for law review footnotes. Here is the first example above as each one prints it, in its typeface.

Court documents (Bluepages)

Kay Deaux & Brenda Major, A Social-Psychological Model of Gender, in Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference 89, 89 (Deborah L. Rhode ed., 1990).

Law review footnotes (Whitepages)

Kay Deaux & Brenda Major, A Social-Psychological Model of Gender, in Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference 89, 89 (Deborah L. Rhode ed., 1990).

The words are the same in both; only the typeface changes.

Common mistakes

Each of these is a citation the checker refuses, with what it says is wrong and the corrected form.

Governing rules

B15 / R15.5

• 3.2(a) — pinpoint pages.
• 15.5.1 — shorter works in a collection.
• 15.5.1(a) — works by various authors (author in roman).
• 15.5.1 — shorter works in a collection.

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Related source types

Books, periodicals & other secondary:

• Book
• Foreword, preface or introduction
• Frequently cited named work
• Law review / journal article
• Magazine article
• Newspaper article
• Forthcoming article
• Working paper
• Unpublished manuscript or thesis
• Letter, memo, e-mail or press release
• Interview
• Speech or address
• Microform