BLUE BOOK

General Guide to Formatting a Footnote:

Footnotes must be used at the last part of each page. Refer the following styleBooks: Authors name, Title of the book(in italics). (Place of publication: Publishers name year)
page
e.g.- A. Williams, Human Health and Environment. (Allahabad: Suryanshu Law Publications
2011) 79.
Articles: Authors name, Title of the paper, vol.Issue--, year name of journal (in
italics) page
e.g.- A. Williams, Child Rights in India, vol. 48 Issue 2, 2011 Journal of Human Rights 22-52.

Collection of articles/papers in book: Authors name, Title of the paper in: Editors name, Title
of the book (in italics). (Place of publication: Publishers name year) page
e.g.- Prabhash P., Right to Access Medicine and IPR in: A. Williams, Human Health and
Environment. (Ghazipur: SPS Publications 2011) 97.
Newspaper: Authors name, Title, date (day), name of newspaper (in italics), page
e.g.- Divyanshu, Separation of Powers, 27th May 2011 (Friday) The Legal Observer, 2
Website: Authors name, Title of the paper, vol.Issue--, year name of Journal (in italics)
page available at www.oxford.org, accessed on (date of access)
e.g.- Peter K. Yu, The Objectives and Principles of the TRIPS Agreement, available
at http://www.peteryu.com/correa.pdf, accessed on 27/09/2013

General Guide to Formatting a Bibliography

For a book:
Author (last name first). Title of the book. City: Publisher, Date of publication.
EXAMPLE: Dahl, Roald: The BFG. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982.

For an Article:
Author (last name first): Title of the Article, Name of Journal (in italics), Volume (Year), and
Page Number.
EXAMPLE: Achtenberg, Jack: "Legal Writing and Research: The Neglected Orphan., U. of
Miami L.R. 29 (1975): 218-59.
For an encyclopaedia:
Encyclopaedia Title, Edition Date. Volume Number, "Article Title," page numbers.
EXAMPLE: The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1997. Volume 7, "Gorillas," pp. 50-51.
For a magazine:
Author (last name first), "Article Title." Name of magazine. Volume number, (Date): page
numbers.
EXAMPLE: Jordan, Jennifer, "Filming at the Top of the World." Museum of Science Magazine.
Volume 47, No. 1, (Winter 1998): p. 11.
For a newspaper:
Author (last name first), "Article Title." Name of newspaper, city, state of publication. (date):
edition if available, section, page number(s).
EXAMPLE: Powers, Ann, "New Tune for the Material Girl." The New York Times, New York,
NY. (3/1/98): Atlantic Region, Section 2, p. 34.
For a Website:
Complete URL form where you have gathered the content
EXAMPLE: http://www.slideshare.net/Rspeener/intellectual-propertypdf
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