ylj-sources-and-bluebook
Use when building and formatting the citation apparatus for a The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) piece — pinpoint cites, Bluebook form, and source support for every assertion. It governs cite construction; the final editorial cite-check and source-pull is ylj-footnotes-and-cite-check.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ylj-sources-and-bluebook --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Sources & Bluebook (ylj-sources-and-bluebook) Legal scholarship is carried in its **footnotes**, and YLJ formats them in **Bluebook** form (The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation), supplemented by the Journal's own citation requirements. Every sentence that asserts law or fact carries a footnote with a **pinpoint** cite to authority that actually supports it. This skill builds correct, supported cites as you draft; the line-by-line editorial verify happens later in `ylj-footnotes-and-cite-check`. ## When to trigger - Drafting any sentence that states what the law is, what a court held, or a fact - Unsure of Bluebook form for a case, statute, regulation, book, or article - A footnote cites a source generally instead of to the exact page/section - Preparing the manuscript so student editors can source-pull every footnote ## Core rules YLJ editors enforce - **A cite for every proposition.** Assertions of law and fact are footnoted; unsupported claims get flagged in source-pull. - **Pinpoint, always.** Cite the exact page (`id. at 412`), section (`§ 1983`), or paragraph — never just the first page of a long opinion when you rely on a holding deep inside it. - **The source must ac
- When to trigger
- Core rules YLJ editors enforce
- Signals and explanatory parentheticals
- Quotations and paraphrase
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the ylj-sources-and-bluebook skill do?
Use when building and formatting the citation apparatus for a The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) piece — pinpoint cites, Bluebook form, and source support for every assertion. It governs cite construction; the final editorial cite-check and source-pull is ylj-footnotes-and-cite-check.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ylj-sources-and-bluebook --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.