What is a source collect?

Staff Editors on Chapman Law Review spend a lot of their time doing what are called “source collects.” This is a key part of the publication process at the Law Review. When Chapman Law Review is working to publishing an article, Staff Editors are each assigned a portion of the article’s footnotes to review and edit. This means than under the guidance of the Article Editors and the Senior Articles Editors, Staff Editors go through each footnote in an article to check it for several different things.

First, the Staff Editors will find all of the sources that the article has cited and print them out. Next, the Staff Editors will review the sources to make sure that they accurately support the article. After that, Staff Editors will edit each citation in the article to ensure that they are in proper Bluebook format. Staff Editors will also perform an edit of the article itself checking for grammar, clarity, and any other issues that may come up. Finally, the Staff Editors will put all of this information into an organized binder so that the other members of the Law Review can use them throughout the entire publication process.

Why do we do source collects?

Chapman Law Review works hard to ensure that all of our publications are not only interesting, but are of high quality. Through source collects, the Law Review is able to make sure that every single article that we publish is properly supported, accurately cited, and an overall strong contribution to the legal field. We appreciate all of the Staff Editors and other members of the Law Review for their hard work during the publication process to help make this possible!