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Chicago 17th edition notes and bibliography

Footnotes and Bibliography for the Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition

Legal materials

For legal materials, Chicago recommends using the The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (see 14.269). It also states:

The Bluebook and the ALWD Guide are used in the United States. For citation guides used in Canada, see 14.293; for those used in the United Kingdom, see 14.297.

Following the broad principle of using citation styles used within a specific jurisdiction, we recommend using the Australian Guide to Legal Citation 4th edition when citing legal materials.