You know, it occurs to me that since @HoffProf got like every law journal to fix "et al," I should pressure you to fix my own favorite bluebook stupidities.

ALL LAW JOURNALS PLEASE IMMEDIATELY DECREE THAT HENCEFORTH: (1/∞)

1. Journal articles are in quotes like in every other gooddamn citation style on the planet. (2/∞)

2. Journal and book titles are in italics, like in every other goddamn citation style on the planet. (3/∞)

3. All mandatory abbreviations of journal and minor court names are henceforth abolished. The only abbreviations required or permitted are for U.S. federal Article 3 courts, U.S. state courts of general jurisdiction, U.S. federal or state statutes and regulations. (4/∞)

4. Small caps is no longer required for anything. (5/∞)

5. Small caps is forbidden for everything. (6/∞)

6. No punctuation is required to be in italics, unless the letters on both sides of the punctuation in question are in italics. (7/∞)

7. If italics are on one side of the punctuation but not the other, whichever the author happens to have chosen for whether the punctuation is italicized or not is just fine. (8/∞)

8. Signals may only be used for caselaw. (9/∞)

9. "See generally" is abolished; it is now just "see." (10/∞)

10. "See e.g." (with or without commas) is just "e.g." (11/∞)

11. Such signals as remain are not to be put in italics. (12/∞)

12. "Id" becomes "ibid" like every other goddamn citation style on earth. (13/∞)

13. Like every other goddamn citation style on the planet: (14/∞) https://twitter.com/michellenmeyer/status/1298745377559064577

14. Commas are not required after signals (15/∞)

15. Oh hell with it. Signals are abolished. No rational reader relies on them rather than consulting the original source anyway. (15.5/∞ because I'm sick of tweet numbers not matching reform numbers)

16. Where a source has a DOI it should be given. (16/∞)

17. A references list shall be supplied at the end of the article, so that readers do not have to root through hundreds of footnotes to chase down a 'supra' cite. (17/∞)

18. That references list shall be numbered. (18/∞)

19. References in footnotes shall be to author, year, page number, and number in references list. All other information shall be in references list. (19/∞)

20. Each digital version of an article shall include a machine-readable version of its references list, in some format such as bibtex or CSL JSON. (20/∞)

21. Each digital version of an article shall, where technically possible, include machine-readable metadata giving full bibliographic information with every citation. (21/∞)

22. All rules about the order in which individual references should appear in footnotes are abolished. (22/∞)