@davidpwhelan When I, a resident of California, went to a California law school that's part of the University of California, the existence of something called the California Style Manual was never so much as mentioned. And yet, that, not the Bluebook, is the authority for how citations in papers filed in California courts are supposed to look. Imagine my surprise when I got my first job and learned that everything I thought I knew about citation style was wrong. Is this common? Do all law schools in states whose courts don't use Bluebook simply assume that their students will be working in some other court?