Journal Staff Guide

The Bluebook, now in its 21st edition, is the style manual for citing to legal documents within the United States. While other styles do exist, and are in some jurisdictions mandated by courts, the Bluebook style is the one most commonly used by academic law journals.

Published by the Association of Legal Writing Directors, this book is a guide to citing legal documents in academic papers. The ALWD's discussion of legal citations in academic footnotes may be of particular relevance to journal staff members preparing articles or writing notes for publication.

This manual from the Texas Law Review Association discusses issues facing legal writers, as well as addressing how to resolve some conflicts between style and citation rules.

This is a book of practical guidance for law journal editors, written by law professors who were former journal editors themselves and law librarians who work with student journal members. Its discussions of journal organization, article editing, and the journal publication process may be helpful to newly elected journal editors.

This combination study and memoir examines the role of law reviews in American legal education. It also discusses the author's experiences with the difficulties of working on a law review, highlighting both causes and potential solutions to issues commonly encountered by journal staff members.

This book is a guide to helping prospective law journal members prepare applications to join a journal, but it could serve just as well for journal editors as a study of important considerations relevant to managing the write-on process, or as a checklist to help those editors evaluate membership applications.