For everything you ever wanted to know about the blue book, and critical and historical commentary, to boot,
visit the Wikipedia entry at Bluebook. Tip of the hat to the Legal Writing Profs Blog.
When I was in law school, the name "blue book" was for insiders only. Although in its early editions the cover had been blue, at that time, it was white. So if you called the book the "white book," you betrayed your ignorance.
MCG
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