Blue book

Blue book may refer to:

Academia and education[edit]

Blue book exam, a type of test involving writing an essay, typically into a pamphlet – traditionally blue colored – called a "blue book"
Blue and Brown Books, the Blue Book of Lecture Notes for 1933–1934 for Ludwig Wittgenstein lectures

Blue Book (CD standard), the name of one format from the Rainbow Book standards for compact discs, defining the Enhanced CD standard
A common name of the book Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation, and any virtual machine implementation based on Smalltalk
Blue Book protocol, the file transfer protocol of the Coloured Book protocols
The Java Virtual Machine specification
Blue Books, spacecraft data and telemetry recommendations made by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
Ingo Wegener's Blue Book, an influential textbook in circuit complexity formally titled The Complexity of Boolean Functions (1987)

In the Traineeship scheme of the European Commission, internship candidates who pass a preselection are added to a Blue Book, from which the final successful candidates are chosen
A publication of the United Nations Protocol and Liaison Service containing listings relating to Permanent Missions to the United Nations
Blue pages, a government telephone directory, published either as part of books for white pages or yellow pages, or separately in a blue book
the Diplomatic Bluebook of Japan

British Blue Books, collections of diplomatic correspondence and government documents for informing or influencing the public or Parliament
Blue Book (Office for National Statistics), published annually by the Office for National Statistics; contains the estimates of the domestic and national product, income and expenditure for the United Kingdom
Any official report in the UK of Parliament, which in the 19th and early 20th centuries were standardly issued in a dark blue paper cover
Any official report in the UK of the Privy Council, which in the 19th and early 20th centuries were standardly issued in a dark blue paper cover
United Kingdom National Accounts – "The Blue Book", of economic activity in the United Kingdom
"Treason of the Blue Books", "Treachery of the Blue Books" or simply the "Blue Books" – names used for the 1847 Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of Education in Wales
A weekly digest of signals intelligence reports by the British intelligence agency GCHQ
"The Blue Book", genocide scholars' nickname for The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915–1916

Blue Book (FCC), a nickname for a report on Public Service Responsibility of Broadcast Licensees issued on March 7, 1946 by the Federal Communications Commission of the United States
Blue Book (United States Marine Corps), a bulletin listing the lineal precedence and seniority of Marine Corps officers
Project Blue Book, a U.S. Air Force study on UFOs in the 1950s and 1960s
Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, a Revolutionary War drill manual written by Baron von Steuben for the Continental Army, colloquially referred to as the Blue Book
Blue Book, the American name for one of the Japanese naval codes during World War II
Various information registers from U.S. state governments:
- Official Manual State of Missouri ("Missouri Blue Book")
- Oregon Blue Book
- Tennessee Blue Book
- Wisconsin Blue Book
Blue Book of Denver society, first called the Who's Who in Denver Society by Louise Sneed Hill
The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, a transcript of the founding meeting of the John Birch Society
The Blue Book Network, a US media company

Aircraft bluebook, a digest that covers the price and condition of used general aviation aircraft in the U.S; the Aircraft Bluebook Rating Scale (or "Bluebook scale") is used in the aviation industry to rate the condition of used aircraft.
Automobile Blue Book, a route guide to American intercity transportation published between 1901 and 1929.
Kelley Blue Book, an automotive appraisal guide from the company of the same name; it is the United States' largest automotive vehicle valuation company.

The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, a style guide that prescribes the most widely used legal citation system in the United States
One of the Blue and Brown Books, sets of notes taken during lectures conducted by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein between 1933 and 1935 also called Preliminary Studies for the "Philosophical Investigations"
Blue Book (magazine), published from 1905 to 1975
Blue Book (racing), a publication of The Jockey Club
CIBJO Blue Books, a publication defining grading standards and nomenclature for various gems and precious metals
Little Blue Books and Big Blue Books, a series of 20th century paperback books by the Haldeman-Julius Publishing Company
The Wee Blue Book, a Scottish political pro-independence publication
In medicine, the WHO/IARC Classification of Tumors blue book series, published by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the World Health Organization
IUPAC Blue Book, Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry
The Blue Book of Building and Construction, reference work for the construction industry