Blue book

Blue book may refer to:

Academia and education

 * 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

Computing and technology

 * 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)

Government and finance

 * 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 US and Canadian 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

United Kingdom

 * 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
 * "Treachery of the Blue Books", "Treason 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
 * The Blue Book, Political Truth or Historical Fact, a 2009 documentary film about this report

United States

 * 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

Transportation

 * 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.

Other publications

 * 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