Set out below is a table of words and their Bluebook abbreviations with links to examples:
| A-B | C | D-E | F-L | M-O | P-R | S-Z |
Abbreviate the listed words wherever they appear in a party's name that is part of a citation. In addition, abbreviate any state that is included in a party name. (See § 4-500.) When the case is being referred to in a sentence of the text itself rather than simply as a citation only the words starred [*] in the table below should be abbreviated, and then only when not at the beginning of a party's name..
Any other word of eight letters or more not on the following list may also be abbreviated if the abbreviation chosen saves substantial space and reasonably connotes the original word. As a consequence of this Bluebook principle case names prepared according to the ALWD Citation Manual's far more extensive list of "General Abbreviations" will, for the most part, comply, as well, with The Bluebook. There are a few minor points of divergence, however, and one systematic difference, on which the ALWD Citation Manual has recently softened its stance. For a number of words, but following no consistent pattern, The Bluebook uses contractions (e.g., Eng'r and Int'l, though curiously Envtl.). Prior to the fourth edition, the ALWD Citation Manual abbreviations used no apostrophes; all ended with periods (e.g., Engr. and Intl.). The fourth edition authorizes use of contractions as an alternative (e.g., Engr. or Eng'r, Intl. or Int'l).
Except when the abbreviation list explicitly provides for the plural, the plural of a listed word is abbreviated by adding an "s" to the abbreviation of the singular.
Thus:
| A-B | C | ||||
| Academy | Acad. | «e.g.» | Casualty | Cas. | «e.g.» |
| Administrative or Administration | Admin. | «e.g.» | Center or Centre | Ctr. | «e.g.» |
| Administrator or Administratrix | Adm'[r,x] | «e.g.» | Central | Cent. | «e.g.» |
| Advertising | Adver. | «e.g.» | Chemical | Chem. | «e.g.» |
| Agriculture or Agricultural | Agric. | «e.g.» | Coalition | Coal. | «e.g.» |
| Alternative | Alt. | «e.g.» | College | Coll. | «e.g.» |
| America or American | Am. | «e.g.» | Commission | Comm'n | «e.g.» |
| And * | & | «e.g.» | Commissioner | Comm'r | «e.g.» |
| Associate | Assoc. | «e.g.» | Committee | Comm. | «e.g.» |
| Association * | Ass'n | «e.g.» | Communication | Commc'n | «e.g.» |
| Atlantic | Atl. | «e.g.» | Community | Cmty. | «e.g.» |
| Authority | Auth. | «e.g.» | Company * | Co. | «e.g.» |
| Automobile or Automotive | Auto. | «e.g.» | Compensation | Comp. | «e.g.» |
| Avenue | Ave. | «e.g.» | Condominium | Condo. | «e.g.» |
| Bankruptcy | Bankr. | «e.g.» | Congress or Congressional | Cong. | «e.g.» |
| Board | Bd. | «e.g.» | Consolidated | Consol. | «e.g.» |
| Broadcast or Broadcasting | Broad. | «e.g.» | Construction | Constr. | «e.g.» |
| Brotherhood | Bhd. | «e.g.» | Continental | Cont'l | «e.g.» |
| Brothers * | Bros. | «e.g.» | Cooperative | Coop. | «e.g.» |
| Building | Bldg. | «e.g.» | Corporation * | Corp. | «e.g.» |
| Business | Bus. | «e.g.» | Correction, Correctional, or Corrections | Corr. | «e.g.» |
| County | Cnty. | «e.g.» |
| D-E | F-K | ||||
| Defense | Def. | «e.g.» | Federal | Fed. | «e.g.» |
| Department | Dep't | «e.g.» | Federation | Fed'n | «e.g.» |
| Detention | Det. | «e.g.» | Fidelity | Fid. | «e.g.» |
| Development | Dev. | «e.g.» | Finance, Financial, or Financing | Fin. | «e.g.» |
| Director | Dir. | «e.g.» | Foundation | Found. | «e.g.» |
| Discount | Disc. | «e.g.» | General | Gen. | «e.g.» |
| Distributor or Distributing | Distrib. | «e.g.» | Gender | Gend. | «e.g.» |
| District | Dist. | «e.g.» | Government | Gov't | «e.g.» |
| Division | Div. | «e.g.» | Group | Grp. | «e.g.» |
| East or Eastern | E. | «e.g.» | Guaranty | Guar. | «e.g.» |
| Economic, Economical, Economics, or Economy | Econ. | «e.g.» | Hospital | Hosp. | «e.g.» |
| Education or Educational | Educ. | «e.g.» | Housing | Hous. | «e.g.» |
| Electric, Electrical, Electricity, or Electronic | Elec. | «e.g.» | Import, Importation, or Importer | Imp. | «e.g.» |
| Employee | Emp. | «e.g.» | Incorporated * | Inc. | «e.g.» |
| Employer or Employment | Emp'[r,t] | «e.g.» | Indemnity | Indem. | «e.g.» |
| Engineer | Eng'r | «e.g.» | Independent | Indep. | «e.g.» |
| Engineering | Eng'g | «e.g.» | Industry, Industries, or Industrial | Indus. | «e.g.» |
| Enterprise | Enter. | «e.g.» | Information | Info. | «e.g.» |
| Entertainment | Entm't | «e.g.» | Institute or Institution | Inst. | «e.g.» |
| Environment | Env't | «e.g.» | Insurance | Ins. | «e.g.» |
| Environmental | Envtl. | «e.g.» | International | Int'l | «e.g.» |
| Equality | Equal. | «e.g.» | Investment | Inv. | «e.g.» |
| Equipment | Equip. | «e.g.» | Laboratory | Lab. | «e.g.» |
| Examiner | Exam'r | «e.g.» | Liability | Liab. | «e.g.» |
| Exchange | Exch. | «e.g.» | Limited * | Ltd. | «e.g.» |
| Executive | Exec. | «e.g.» | Litigation | Litig. | «e.g.» |
| Executor or Executrix | Ex'[r,x] | «e.g.» | |||
| Export, Exportation, or Exporter | Exp. | «e.g.» |
| M-O | P-R | ||||
| Machine or Machinery | Mach. | «e.g.» | Pacific | Pac. | «e.g.» |
| Maintenance | Maint. | «e.g.» | Partnership | P'ship | «e.g.» |
| Management | Mgmt. | «e.g.» | Person, Personal, or Personnel | Pers. | «e.g.» |
| Manufacturer | Mfr. | «e.g.» | Pharmaceutics or Pharmaceuticals | Pharm. | «e.g.» |
| Manufacturing | Mfg. | «e.g.» | Preserve or Preservation | Pres. | «e.g.» |
| Maritime | Mar. | «e.g.» | Probation | Prob. | «e.g.» |
| Market | Mkt. | «e.g.» | Product or Production | Prod. | «e.g.» |
| Marketing | Mktg. | «e.g.» | Professional | Prof'l | «e.g.» |
| Mechanic or Mechanical | Mech. | «e.g.» | Property | Prop. | «e.g.» |
| Medical or Medicine | Med. | «e.g.» | Protection | Prot. | «e.g.» |
| Memorial | Mem'l | «e.g.» | Public | Pub. | «e.g.» |
| Merchant, Merchandise, or Merchandising | Merch. | «e.g.» | Publication | Publ'n | «e.g.» |
| Metropolitan | Metro. | «e.g.» | Publishing | Publ'g | «e.g.» |
| Mortgage | Mortg. | «e.g.» | |||
| Municipal | Mun. | «e.g.» | Railroad | R.R. | «e.g.» |
| Mutual | Mut. | «e.g.» | Railway | Ry. | «e.g.» |
| National | Nat'l | «e.g.» | Refining | Ref. | «e.g.» |
| North or Northern | N. | «e.g.» | Regional | Reg'l | «e.g.» |
| Northeast or Northeastern | Ne. | «e.g.» | Rehabilitation | Rehab. | «e.g.» |
| Northwest or Northwestern | Nw. | «e.g.» | Reproduction or Reproductive | Reprod. | «e.g.» |
| Number * | No. | «e.g.» | Resource or Resources | Res. | «e.g.» |
| Opinion | Op. | «e.g.» | Restaurant | Rest. | «e.g.» |
| Organization or Organizing | Org. | «e.g.» | Retirement | Ret. | «e.g.» |
| Road | Rd. | «e.g.» |
| S | T-Z | ||||
| Savings | Sav. | «e.g.» | Technology | Tech. | «e.g.» |
| School or Schools | Sch. | «e.g.» | Telecommunication | Telecomm. | «e.g.» |
| Science | Sci. | «e.g.» | Telephone or Telegraph | Tel. | «e.g.» |
| Secretary | Sec'y | «e.g.» | Temporary | Temp. | «e.g.» |
| Security or Securities | Sec. | «e.g.» | Township | Twp. | «e.g.» |
| Service | Serv. | «e.g.» | Transcontinental | Transcon. | «e.g.» |
| Shareholder | S'holder | «e.g.» | Transport or Transportation | Transp. | «e.g.» |
| Social | Soc. | «e.g.» | Trustee | Tr. | «e.g.» |
| Society | Soc'y | «e.g.» | Turnpike | Tpk. | «e.g.» |
| South or Southern | S. | «e.g.» | Uniform | Unif. | «e.g.» |
| Southeast or Southeastern | Se. | «e.g.» | University | Univ. | «e.g.» |
| Southwest or Southwestern | Sw. | «e.g.» | Utility | Util. | «e.g.» |
| Steamship or Steamships | S.S. | «e.g.» | Village | Vill. | «e.g.» |
| Street | St. | «e.g.» | West or Western | W. | «e.g.» |
| Subcommittee | Subcomm. | «e.g.» | |||
| Surety | Sur. | «e.g.» | |||
| System or Systems | Sys. | «e.g.» |