Journal Staff Guide

This guide introduces The Bluebook and basic concepts of legal citation. It explains the organization and layout of The Bluebook and how to cite the most commonly cited legal materials, making it a useful reference for journal members looking to read and understand those same citations.

This guide, hosted by the Cornell University Law School, is a guide to legal citation specifically as used in legal practice (as opposed to academic and journal writing). Some court and government citations that are not covered by the Bluebook may be explained here.

This guide is for students seeking to decipher legal and general abbreviations and acronyms. It contains links to many other resources explaining abbreviations and acronyms that journal members might encounter in the course of journal work.

This guide to scholarship databases may be of use to journal members interested in accessing articles they find cited in articles they may be preparing for publication in their journal.

This page of the Foreign and Comparative Law Research Guide can assist in accessing international articles not covered in the previous guide.

This guide may be of use to journal members interested in accessing newspaper articles. It covers online resources as well as newspapers available through subscription databases available to Georgetown Law students.

This guide was prepared to assist a Journal Staff start a source collection assignment.

An Interlibrary Loan Request is a request for a library to borrow something, like a book or a photocopy of an article, from another library. If the Georgetown Law Library does not have an item, a Georgetown Law student can ask the Law Library to borrow that item from another library, so that the item will will be sent to the Law Library for the student to access. This Guide provides detailed information to walk a Georgetown Law student through the process of submitting an Interlibrary Loan Request.

This guide answers the most commonly asked questions about Interlibrary Loans.