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.
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. For a number of words, but following no consistent pattern, The Bluebook uses contractions (e.g., Eng'r and Int'l, though curiously Envtl.). The ALWD Citation Manual abbreviations use no apostrophes; all end with periods (e.g., Engr. and Intl.).
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.» |
| America or American | Am. | «e.g.» | College | Coll. | «e.g.» |
| And * | & | «e.g.» | Commission | Comm'n | «e.g.» |
| Associate | Assoc. | «e.g.» | Commissioner | Comm'r | «e.g.» |
| Association * | Ass'n | «e.g.» | Committee | Comm. | «e.g.» |
| Atlantic | Atl. | «e.g.» | Community | Cmty. | «e.g.» |
| Authority | Auth. | «e.g.» | Communication | Commc'n | «e.g.» |
| Automobile or Automotive | Auto. | «e.g.» | Company * | Co. | «e.g.» |
| Avenue | Ave. | «e.g.» | Compensation | Comp. | «e.g.» |
| Bankruptcy | Bankr. | «e.g.» | Condominium | Condo. | «e.g.» |
| Board | Bd. | «e.g.» | Congress or Congressional | Cong. | «e.g.» |
| Broadcast or Broadcasting | Broad. | «e.g.» | Consolidated | Consol. | «e.g.» |
| Brotherhood | Bhd. | «e.g.» | Construction | Constr. | «e.g.» |
| Brothers * | Bros. | «e.g.» | Continental | Cont'l | «e.g.» |
| Building | Bldg. | «e.g.» | Cooperative | Coop. | «e.g.» |
| Business | Bus. | «e.g.» | Corporation * | Corp. | «e.g.» |
| Correction, Correctional, or Corrections | Corr. | «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.» | Government | Gov't | «e.g.» |
| District | Dist. | «e.g.» | Guaranty | Guar. | «e.g.» |
| Division | Div. | «e.g.» | Hospital | Hosp. | «e.g.» |
| East or Eastern | E. | «e.g.» | Housing | Hous. | «e.g.» |
| Economic, Economical, Economics, or Economy | Econ. | «e.g.» | Import, Importation, or Importer | Imp. | «e.g.» |
| Education or Educational | Educ. | «e.g.» | Incorporated * | Inc. | «e.g.» |
| Electric, Electrical, Electricity, or Electronic | Elec. | «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.» |
| Executor or Executrix | Ex'[r,x] | «e.g.» | Litigation | Litig. | «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.» |
| 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.» |
| Organization or Organizing | Org. | «e.g.» | Restaurant | Rest. | «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.» |
| Southeast or Southeastern | Se. | «e.g.» | Uniform | Unif. | «e.g.» |
| Southwest or Southwestern | Sw. | «e.g.» | University | Univ. | «e.g.» |
| South or Southern | S. | «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.» |