<p>Just to be clear, undergraduates often refer to blank booklets with blue covers as “blue books.” They are used in exams as the paper on which short-answer or essay questions can be answered.</p>
<p>Law journals have a specific citation method, which is outlined in a very detailed outline with a blue cover, referred to as “The Bluebook.” Law students do the work on law journals and therefore become very familiar with The Bluebook, which is sometimes verbed to become “bluebooking”: the practice of converting incorrectly formatted or punctuated citations into the proper form, as described in The Bluebook.</p>