How to cite a Tribal order, ordinance or resolution

Bluebook (22d ed.) citation format · B22 / R22.2.3 · Foreign, international, tribal & archival

Example

Healing to Wellness Court, Res. No. 023-22 (2022) (Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Council), https://law.mohican.com/us/nsn/mohican/council/resolutions/2022/023-22.

What the citation needs

Required

• Number — The number that identifies the document in its series.
• Year of adoption — The year that goes in the date parenthetical at the end of the citation.
• Propounding body — The body that issued the document.

When they apply

• Name of the order, ordinance or resolution — The source’s name, as the rule for this type gives it.
• Tribal Nation (if not apparent from the body) — The tribal nation, as it appears on the source.
• Code enacted — R22.2.3(b): “enacting the ... Code”.
• URL — The web address, where you cite the source online (R18.2).
• On file with — Where a reader can get an unpublished or hard-to-find source: what follows “on file with” — “author”, or the library or journal holding it (R17.1).

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)

Healing to Wellness Court, Res. No. 023-22 (2022) (Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Council), https://law.mohican.com/us/nsn/mohican/council/resolutions/2022/023-22.

Law review footnotes (Whitepages)

Healing to Wellness Court, Res. No. 023-22 (2022) (Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Council), https://law.mohican.com/us/nsn/mohican/council/resolutions/2022/023-22.

For this source the two are set the same way.

Common mistakes

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

Governing rules

B22 / R22.2.3

• 22 — Tribal Nations.
• 22.2.3 — Tribal Nation orders, ordinances, and resolutions.
• 18.2 — 18.2

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Related source types

Foreign, international, tribal & archival:

• Foreign case
• World Court case (I.C.J. / P.C.I.J.)
• Other international tribunal or arbitration
• European Union document
• Other international organization document
• International yearbook or digest
• Foreign statute or constitution
• Treaty
• U.N. document
• Tribal Nation law
• Archival material