Editing ALWD Guide to Legal Citation (section)

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'''''ALWD Guide to Legal Citation''''', formerly '''''ALWD Citation Manual''''', is a [[style guide]] providing a [[legal citation]] system for the United States, compiled by the [[Association of Legal Writing Directors]]. Its first edition was published in 2000, under editor [[Darby Dickerson]]. Its seventh edition, under editor Carolyn V. Williams, was released in May 2021 by [[Aspen Publishing]].  The ''ALWD Guide to Legal Citation'' is published as a spiral-bound book as well as an online version. 

It primarily competes with the ''[[Bluebook]]'' style, a system developed and still updated by law reviews students at [[Harvard Law School|Harvard]], [[Yale Law School|Yale]], [[University of Pennsylvania Law School|University of Pennsylvania]], and [[Columbia Law School|Columbia]].  Citations in the two formats are essentially identical.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guide to Legal Citation: FAQ |url=https://www.alwd.org/guide-faqs |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=www.alwd.org}}</ref> ''ALWD'' primarily focuses on citations for legal and court documents while the Bluebook focuses on academic writing, although both manuals provide citation guidance for both kinds of writing.