IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF THE AMENDMENTS TO GR 14 AND RAP 10.4(g)

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ORDER NO. 25700-A-768

     The Washington State Bar Association having recommended the adoption of the proposed amendments to GR 14 and RAP 10.4(g), and the Court having considered the amendments, and having determined that the proposed amendments will aid in the prompt and orderly administration of justice;

     Now, therefore, it is hereby

     ORDERED:

     (a) That the amendments as attached hereto are adopted.

     (b) That the amendments will be published in the Washington Reports and will become effective September 1, 2003.

     DATED at Olympia, Washington this 12th day of June 2003.

	Alexander, C. J.
Johnson, J.	Bridge, J.
Madsen, J.	Chambers, J.
Sanders, J.	Owens, J.
Ireland, J.	Fairhurst, J.

     (d) Citation Format. Citations shall conform with the format prescribed by the Reporter of Decisions. (See Appendix 1.)

NOTE: The WSBA Court Rules and Procedures Committee recommends that the Appendix consist of the Reporter of Decisions "style sheet," and that an updated version be included in the published rule book each year, thereby allowing any changes to be incorporated easily as they are made and providing a ready reference for practitioners.

     2. The Practitioners' Notes section of the Bluebook (section P at 10-19 on light blue paper) applies specifically to court documents. BLUEBOOK I.1, at 3 and § P at 11. Conflicts between section R of the Bluebook (General Rules of Citation and Style at 20-181) and section P of the Bluebook are resolved in favor of section P with the exception that for typefaces, a manuscript opinion may follow the rules of section P or section R.

     3. The latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style is the authority for punctuation and style matters not covered by the Bluebook.

     4. Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language is the authority for spelling, including spacing and hyphens between nouns (e.g., boyfriend, girl friend, day care, baby-sitter). Where two or more spellings are listed, use Webster's preferred spelling rather than the variant.

     5. For matters not covered by the Bluebook, The Chicago Manual of Style, or Webster's, the Office of the Reporter of Decisions applies formal, traditional, noncolloquial English.

TITLE	ABBREVIATION
Washington Constitution	Const. art. VI, § 1 (amend. 2)
Revised Code of Washington (Official)	RCW
Revised Code of Washington Annotated (West)	RCWA
Annotated Revised Code of Washington (LEXIS)	ARCW
Session Laws	Laws of 2002, ch. 107, § 3
special sessions	Laws of 1995, 2d Spec. Sess., ch. 14, § 21
extraordinary sessions	Laws of 1963, 1st Ex. Sess., ch. 26
Washington Reports, 2d Series	Wn.2d
Washington Reports	Wash.
Washington Territory Reports	Wash. Terr.
Washington Appellate Reports	Wn. App.
Washington Administrative Code	WAC
Washington State Register	St. Reg.
Early Statutes
Ballinger Code	Ball. Code
Code of 1881	Code of 1881
Hill's Code of Procedure	Hill's Code of Proc.
Hill's General Statutes	Hill's Gen. Stat.
Pierce's Code	Pierce's Code
Remington Revised Statutes	Rem. Rev. Stat.
Remington's 1915 Code	Rem. 1915 Code

     Note: "Const.," "Laws," and the names of codes, when used in citations, are printed in the official reports in large and small caps. Ordinary typeface is acceptable in manuscript opinions.

     2. Exception to Bluebook practitioners' note P.6, at 17-18 and rule 8, at 51-53: Ignore these sections. The Reporter's Office generally follows The Chicago Manual of Style to resolve capitalization issues although, other than capitalizing proper nouns and maintaining consistency throughout the opinion, the judicial author's preference governs.

     3. Exception to Bluebook practitioners' note P.7, at 18: Cite court documents without parentheses.

     4. Exceptions to Bluebook rule 6.2(a) at 49-50: In text, spell out numbers zero to nine. Use arabic numerals for higher numbers. Use commas in numbers 1,000 and higher (e.g., 9,876) except when citing a page number in a case or court document.

     5. Exception to Bluebook rule 6.2(d) at 50: In text, always write out "percent" rather than using a percentage sign (%).

     6. Exception to Bluebook rule 10.3.1, at 62: Cite official reports and regional reporters for all cases for which official reports are published. For California, Illinois, and New York, include the state specific reporter (Cal. Rptr. 2d, Ill. Dec., N.Y.S.2d) in addition to the official reports and regional reporters.

     7. Exception to Bluebook rule 12.3.2, at 80: Do not add the year in parentheses after a citation to a presently effective version of a statute or code.

     8. Exception to Bluebook rule 12.8.2, at 85: Do not add "Wash." for codes and ordinances of Washington local governments.

     9. Exception to Bluebook table T.1, at 183: Cite United States Supreme Court cases as follows: __U.S. __, __S. Ct. __, __L. Ed. 2d__ (year).

     2. Add the following to the list of short citations to cases from the Bluebook practitioners' note P.4, at 15: Smith, 123 Wn.2d 51.

     3. Cite a case that, because of an amendment, has a single Wn.2d or Wn. App. citation but two Pacific Reporter citations as follows:

     State v. Smith, 123 Wn.2d 45, 895 P.2d 590, 897 P.2d 511 (1994).

     Include the year that the opinion was filed, not the year of the amendment.

     (g) [Reserved. See GR 14(d).] Citations. Citations must be in conformity with the form used in current volumes of the Washington Reports. Decisions of the Supreme Court and of the Court of Appeals must be cited to the official report thereof and should include the national reporter citation and the year of the decision. The citation of other state court decisions should include both the state and national reporter citations. The citation of a United States Supreme Court decision should include the United States Reports, the United States Supreme Court Reports Lawyers' Edition, and the Supreme Court Reporter. The citation of a decision of any other federal court should include the federal reporter citation and the district of the district court or circuit of the court of appeals deciding the case. Any citation should include the year decided and a reference to and citation of any subsequent decision of the same case.

     (h) - (i) Unchanged.

     Reviser's note: The typographical error in the above material occurred in the copy filed by the State Supreme Court and appears in the Register pursuant to the requirements of RCW 34.08.040.

     Reviser's note: The brackets and enclosed material in the text of the above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency and appear in the Register pursuant to the requirements of RCW 34.08.040.

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