How to cite a speech or address

Bluebook (22d ed.) citation format, B17 / R17.2.6.

Bluebook (22d ed.) citation format for a speech or address, governed by B17 / R17.2.6. Worked example, required elements, and the rules that apply.

Example

Herbert Wechsler, Remarks at the Meeting of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in Memory of Chief Justice Stone 5 (Nov. 12, 1947) (transcript available in the Columbia Law School Library).

Governing rules

B17 / R17.2.6

• 17 — unpublished & forthcoming sources (ordinary roman type).
• 17.2 — unpublished materials.
• 17.2.6 — speeches & addresses.

Required elements

• Speaker
• Title of the remarks
• Date

Optional elements

• Affiliation
• Pincite
• Where a transcript is available
• Published in

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