The Bluebook has been accepted and critiqued, but it's now much better with the Bluebook uniform system of citation edition 20th. The primary goal of a legal citation is to enable the reader to quickly find the cited source. For this reason, the citations in The Bluebook are structured...
Without warning the 20th edition of The Bluebook changed that. Revised rule 12.9.4 would add a new component to all such citations – namely, the institutional source of the work. The new rule requires that the date parenthetical include the source’s name, abbreviated. That means adding “...