Bluebook Guide: Typeface for Court Documents

The Bluebook covers some other preliminary matters before delving into citation conventions.  Be sure to review these sections in the Whitepages for a general overview.

• Structure & Use of Citations
• Typefaces for Law Reviews
• Subdivisions
• Short Citation Forms
• Quotations
• Abbreviations, Numerals & Symbols
• Italicization for Style & in Unique Circumstances
• Capitalization
• Titles of Judges, Officials & Terms of Court

The Bluepages suggest underscoring, but as a practical matter, underscoring is the equivalent of italics.  The Bluepages set forth general rules for underscoring or italicizing.  See B2, p. 6.

• Case names, including procedural phrases introducing case names
• Titles of books and articles
• Titles of some legislative materials
• Introductory signals
• Explanatory phrases introducing subsequent case history
• Cross references, such as id. and supra
• Words and phrases introducing related authority, such as "quoted in"

Additionally, the following information in the text of a court document should be underscored or italicized.

• Titles of publications, such as The New York Times
• Words italicized in the original source of a quotation
• Any other word that would otherwise be italicized, such as an uncommon foreign word

• Importantly, various courts provide jurisdiction-specific requirements for court documents. 
• The Bluepages provide jurisdiction-specific citation rules and style guides.  BT2.1, pp. 30-60.
• Notably, the Style Manual for the Supreme and Appellate Courts of Illinois provides guidance on grammar and mechanical conventions and citation styles. 
• For case names in Illinois court documents, use italics.