How to cite a foreword, preface or introduction

Bluebook (22d ed.) citation format, B15 / R15.5(b).

Bluebook (22d ed.) citation format for a foreword, preface or introduction, governed by B15 / R15.5(b). Worked example, required elements, and the rules that apply.

Example

Henry M. Hart & Herbert Wechsler, Preface to the First Edition of Paul M. Bator et al., Hart and Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and the Federal System, at xxvii, xxx (3d ed. 1988).

Governing rules

B15 / R15.5(b)

• 3.2(a) — pinpoint pages.
• 15.4 — edition, publisher & date.
• 15.6 — prefaces, forewords, introductions & epilogues.

Required elements

• Part — R15.5(b): “Foreword to”, “Preface to”, “Introduction to”.
• Author of the part
• Work it introduces
• First page

Optional elements

• Editor
• Translator
• Publisher
• Place of publication
• Edition
• Supplement
• Pincite
• Precede the pincite with “at”
• Original year
• Year

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