# Blue book

Blue book may refer to:

## Academia and education

* Blue book exam, an essay test named for the "blue book" pamphlet testees write into
* A component of the Blue and Brown Books, containing lectures by Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1933 and 1934
* The Bluebook testing application by College Board used to administer digital SATs and AP exams

## Computing and technology

* Blue Book (CD standard), a compact disc media format
* A common name of the book Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation
* Blue Book protocol, the file transfer protocol of the Coloured Book protocols
* The Java Virtual Machine specification
* Ingo Wegener's Blue Book (The Complexity of Boolean Functions), a circuit complexity textbook

## Government and finance

* Blue book, the database of candidates who qualify for preselection in the traineeship scheme of the European Commission
* The Diplomatic Bluebook of Japan, an annual report on Japan's foreign policy

### United Kingdom

* British Blue Books, collections of diplomatic correspondence
* United Kingdom National Accounts – "The Blue Book", an annual report
* The "Treachery of the Blue Books", a controversial 1847 British government report disparaging Wales
* Blue Book (Bryce and Toynbee book), a government report on the Armenian genocide
   * The Blue Book, Political Truth or Historical Fact, a 2009 documentary film about the report

### United States

* Blue Book (FCC) (Public Service Responsibility of Broadcast Licensees), a 1946 report
* 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 colloquially referred to as the "Blue Book"
* Blue Book, American name for a World War II Japanese naval code
* The Blue Book of Denver society, originally by Louise Sneed Hill
* The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, a transcript of the society's founding meeting
* The Blue Book Network, a US media company

#### State government information registers

* Official Manual State of Missouri ("Missouri Blue Book")
* Oregon Blue Book
* Tennessee Blue Book
* Wisconsin Blue Book

## Transportation

* Aircraft bluebook, a digest of used general aviation aircraft in the US
* Automobile Blue Book, an American intercity transportation guide (1901–1929)
* Kelley Blue Book, an automotive appraisal guide from the company of the same name

## Other uses

* The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, a US legal citation style guide
* Blue Book (magazine) (1905–1975)
* Blue Book (racing), a list of thoroughbred racehorses
* Little Blue Books, a 20th century paperback book series
* Big Blue Books, a 20th century paperback book series
* The Wee Blue Book, a 2014 Scottish pro-independence publication
* The WHO Blue Books, classifying tumors, from the World Health Organization
* IUPAC Blue Book, common name for Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry
* The Blue Book of Building and Construction, a reference work for the construction industry
* Project Blue Book (TV series), a 2019 History Channel science fiction series
* Blaubuch ("Blue Book"), a list of culturally important sites in eastern Germany