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AGLC 4 examples
This guide will assist you in understanding how to reference for your assignment. It contains examples to help you format your footnotes and bibliography.
The Australian Guide to Legal Citation 4th edition (AGLC 4) is a numbered style, meaning in-text citations are represented by a superscript number 1, 3, 8 and the details of the citation are included in a footnote in the body of your assignment. Where a bibliography is required, it should list all the citations used and other sources that were relied upon, organised alphabetically in sections, and placed at the end of your assignment.
Foreign domestic material
Journal, newspaper, looseleaf
Website, speech, conference
A v B (Year) Volume Report Page.
A v B [Year] Report Volume.
Salapo v Minister for Home Affairs [2019] FCA 67.
Parties’ names should appear in italics.
The name of the party bringing the action (the plaintiff or appellant) should appear first.
The 'v' is pronounced 'and' in civil cases (e.g. "Alati and Kruger").
The 'v' is pronounced 'against' in criminal cases (e.g. "Williams against the Queen").
There is no full-stop (period) after the 'v'.
Law report information is found in Report series.
AGLC rule 2
A v B (Year) Volume Report Page ('Abbreviated Case Name').
Commonwealth v Tasmania (1983) 158 CLR 1 ('Tasmanian Dam Case'), 237.
Where a case is well-known by an abbreviated form, the abbreviated form can be provided in brackets after the initial citation and may be used thereafter.
AGLC rule 2.1.14
R v Defendant (Year) Volume Report Page.
R v Reid [2007] 1 Qd R 64.
Rex or Regina should be abbreviated to ‘R’ where the Crown is the first-named party.
Where the Crown is the second-named party, ‘The Queen’ or ‘The King’ should be used, as appropriate.
Attorney General or Director of Public Prosecutions
Applicant v A-G (Year) Volume Report Page.
DPP v Respondent (Year) Volume Report Page.
Zecevic v DPP (Vic) (1987) 162 CLR 645.
Fardon v A-G (Qld) (2004) 223 CLR 575.
DPP (Cth) v De La Rosa (2010) 205 A Crim R 1.
Where the Attorney General or the Director of Public Prosecutions is a party, use 'A-G' and 'DPP' respectively, followed by the state abbreviation in brackets if appropriate.
AGLC rule 2.1.7
Case name (Year) Volume Series Page.
Case name [Year] Series Number.
Norton v The Queen [2001] WASCA 207.
If the volume of a law report series are organised by volume number, round brackets are used eg. (2015).
If the volume of a law report series are organised by year, use square brackets eg. [2015].
These are normally reports with multiple volumes per year, so the year is vital to finding the case.
A list of authorised Australian and UK law reports is found on the Griffith Law Library Guide.
Re Subject (Year) Volume Report Page.
Re Palmer; George v McIntyre (1902) 2 SR (NSW) 200.
'Re' means 'in the matter of'. When 're' is spoken out loud, 'in the matter of' should be said.
'Ex parte'
Party 1 v Party 2; Ex parte Party 3 (Year) Volume Report Page.
Re McBain; Ex parte Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (2002) 209 CLR 372.
'Ex parte' indicates that one party to an action is not present.
The name of the party who is present is included in the citation.
The 'E' in 'Ex' should be capitalised and 'parte' should be in lower case.
Separate Ex parte from parties' names with a semicolon.
Case name (Unreported, Court name, Judge name, Full date) pinpoint.
R v Lowe (Unreported, Queensland Court of Criminal Appeal, Bond J, 15 February 1984) 11-12.
AGLC Rule 2.3
Title Year (Jurisdiction) Pinpoint.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955 (Cth).
Weapons Act 1990 (Qld) s 51(1).
The Short Name of the Act or Instrument, including the year, should be in italics. The jurisdiction (e.g. ‘Cth’) is not italicised.
Use pinpoints if referring to a specific parts of an Act. It is not necessary to cite parts or chapters when citing a specific section.
AGLC rule 3.1
Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment Bill 2013 (Qld) s 2.
Bills should be cited in the same manner as Acts, except the title should not be italicised. The word 'Bill' is used, rather than 'Act'.
AGLC rule 3.2
Explanatory Memorandum, Bill Citation Pinpoint.
Explanatory Memorandum, Education (Overseas Students) Bill 2018 (Qld) 7.
Explanatory Memorandum, Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Bill 2006 (Vic).
‘Explanatory Memorandum’ should be replaced with ‘Explanatory Statement’ or ‘Explanatory Note(s)’ where appropriate.
AGLC rule 3.7
Weapons Act 1990 (Qld) s 51(1)(a).
Corporations Act (No 50) 2001 (Cth) ss 3–5.
Australian Constitution 1900 ss 51(xix), (xxvii)
Sections of an Act should be written as lower-case ‘s’ followed by a space and the section (and sub-section) number.
There is no need to include Part or Chapter references.
Multiple consecutive sections should be prefaced by 'ss' and be separated by an em dash (—)
Multiple non-consecutive sections should be prefaced by 'ss' and be separated by a comma.
AGLC rule 3.1.7
Australian Constitution s 128.
Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (Imp).
Constitution of Queensland 2001 (Qld) s 4.
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia may be referred to as the 'Australian Constitution' where there is no ambiguity.
AGLC rule 3.6
Delegated (Federal) or Subordinate (state) Legislation should be cited in the same manner as primary legislation.
Health (Drugs and Poisons) Regulation 1996 (Qld) reg 9A.
Federal Court Rules 1979 (Cth) ords 4A.
AGLC rule 3.4 and 3.1
Orders ords
Regulation reg
Regulations regs
Rules rr
Subregulation sub-reg
Subregulations sub-regs
Sub-rule sub-r
Sub rules sub-rr
Jurisdiction, Gazette Title, No Gazette Number, Full Date, Pinpoint.
Author, 'Title of Notice' in Jurisdiction, Gazette Title, No Gazette Number, Full Date, Starting Page, Pinpoint.
Commonwealth, Invitation to comment-Genetically Modified Cotton Field Trial, No C2013G00654, 1 May 2013.
Mark Pitt, 'Amending Take of Land Notice (no.1) 2019' in Queensland, Queensland Government Gazette, Vol. 382, 11 October 2019, 222.
AGLC rule 3.9.1
Instrumentality/Officer, Instrument Title (Document Number, Full Date) Pinpoint.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission, ASIC Class Order – Credit Rating Agencies (CO 05/1230, 31 December 2005) [4].
Australian Taxation Office, Income tax and fringe benefits tax: Charities (TR 2011/4, 11 October 2011).
Dates are written as 'Day Month Year'. See Other > Dates
Pinpoint is optional. See also section on pinpoints (Other > Pinpoint references')
AGLC rule 3.9.2
Non-government entity
Issuing Body, Title (at Full date) Pinpoint.
ASX, Listing Rules (at 04 November 2019).
Queensland Law Society, Australian Solicitors Conduct Rules (at 04 November 2019) r 5.1.
AGLC rule 3.9.3
Reproduced in a report series
Court, Practice Direction/Note Number/Identifier: Title of Practice Direction/Note, Citation to Report Series, Pinpoint.
Not from a report series
Court, Practice Direction/Note Number/Identifier: Title of Practice Direction/Note, Full Date, Pinpoint.
Queensland Supreme Court, Practice Direction Number 18 or 2018: Efficient conduct of Civil Litigation, 2018 12.
Federal Court of Australia, Central Practice Note: Native Title Practice Note, 25 October 2016, para 4.3.
AGLC rule 3.9.4
Treaty Title, Parties’ Names, Opened for Signature, Treaty Series, Date of Entry into Force, Pinpoint.
Treaty between Australia and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste establishing their maritime Boundaries in the Timor sea, Australia-Timor-Leste Signed 6 March 2018, (not yet in force).
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, opened for signature 10 December 1984, 1465 UNTS 85 (entered into force 26 June 1987) art 2(2).
AGLC rule 8
Treaty series should be included in the treaty citation. Treaty series may be organised by volume, by year or by deposit sequence.
Do not use a comma or other puncutation before the pinpoint.
Year Volume number Treaty Series abbreviation Starting Page 23 UNTS 11
Volume [Year of volume] Treaty Series abbreviation Starting Page or Treaty number [1981] ATS 6
Deposit series Treaty Series Abbreviation 'No' Sequential Number CETS No 112
Case Name (Parties’ Names) (Phase) Year, Volume and Report series Starting Page Pinpoint.
Bay of Bengal Maritime Boundary Arbitration between the People’s Republic of Bangladesh and the Republic of India (Bangladesh v India) (Arbitration) 2014 XXXII RIAA 1.
AGLC rule 11.1
Parties’ Names (Phase) (Year), Volume and Report Series Starting Page, Pinpoint.
Hrvatska Elektroprivreda d.d. v. Republic of Slovenia, (Decision) (2005), ARB/05/24 1.
AGLC rule 11.2.1
Parties Names (Phase) (Court) Chamber, Case Number, Full Date [Pinpoint].
Prosecutor v Mahdi (Sentencing Judgement) (International Criminal Court), Case No ICC-01/12-01/15, 27 September 2016.
AGLC rule 12.2
UK case – reported
Parties' names (Year) Volume Report Page.
Parties' names [Year] Report Volume.
Lloyd v Google llc [2018] EWHC 2599 (QB) 83.
R v Johnson-Haynes [2019] 4 WLR 133.
The Law Reports, published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales, should be cited where available. The abbreviations for commonly used series in the Law Reports are in a table on page 252 of the AGLC Guide.
See also section on report series (Cases > Report Series)
AGLC rule 24.1
UK case – unreported
Case Name [Year] Unique Court Identifier Judgement Number, Pinpoint.
R v Fazal [2009] EWCA Crim 1697, 11.
R (Morge) v Hampshire County Council [2009] EWHC 2940.
AGLC rule 24.1.5
Title and Year Jurisdiction Regnal Year and Chapter Pinpoint.
Offensive Weapons Act 2019 (UK).
Government of Wales Act 1998 (UK).
AGLC rule 24.2 and 24.3
Canadian cases should be cited as per domestic Australian cases, substituting the name of the appropriate law report.
R v Millington [2017] SCC 53.
The Coca-Cola Co of Canada Ltd v The Pepsi-Cola Co of Canada Ltd [1938] Ex CR 263.
Where a decision is not reported in an official report series, a semi official provincial report series or an unofficial report series should be cited.
Only federal Canadian reports are authorised. These are Supreme Court of Canada (SCR), Canadian Federal Courts (FC 1971-2003 or FCR 2004+) Exchequer Court of Canada (Ex CR 1875-1970)
AGLC rule 15.1
Title Statue Volume and Jurisdiction Year, Chapter, Pinpoint.
Privacy Act, RSC 1985, c P-21, s10 (1).
Copyright Act, RSC 1985, c C-42, s 25.
AGLC rule 15.2
Parties names, Volume Report Number Starting page, Pinpoint (Jurisdiction, Year).
Roper v Simmons, 543 US 551, 567 (2005).
Waugh v Parker, 584 S.W.3d 748 (Ky, 2019).
Court name should be omitted for US Supreme Court.
AGLC rule 25.1
Statute, Title chapter or volume number Abbreviated code name pinpoint Publishers name year of code and supplement.
Federal Deposit Insurance Act, 12 USC §§ 1811–35a (2006).
Abbreviated Code Name table is in AGLC4 25.2.3
AGLC rule 25.2 - 25.7
Chinese case – reported
Case Name [Case name in English] [Year] Issue number Gazette or Report Series Starting page in Report Series Pinpoint.
«兴业银行广州分行与深圳市机场股份有限公司借款合同纠纷案» [Guangzhou Branch of Industrial Bank Co Ltd v Shenzhen Airport Co Ltd — Loan Contract Dispute Case] [2009] 11 中华人民共和国最高人民 法院公报 [Gazette of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China] 30, 36.
AGLC rule 16.2.1
Where text in Chinese is included in a citation, it should appear as it does in the source (in simplified or traditional Chinese characters or pinyin).
Chinese characters should not be italicised, in titles or otherwise. Instead, where an element of a citation would ordinarily be italicised according to the relevant rule of this Guide, Chinese characters forming that element should appear between guillemets (« »).
Chinese case – unreported
Case Name, Court Name, Case Number, Full Date, Pinpoint.
«焦其铸与重庆市信心农牧科技有限公司租赁合同纠纷案» [Jiao Qizhu v Confidence Farming Technology Co Ltd of Chongqing Municipality — Lease Contract Dispute Case], 重庆市第五中级人民法院 [Fifth Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing Municipality, People's Republic of China], 渝五中民终字第93号 [Economic Appeal No 93], 24 April 2008.
AGLC rule 16.2.3
Where text in Chinese is included in a citation, it should appear as it does in the source (in simplified or traditional Chinese characters or pinyin). Chinese characters should not be italicised, in titles or otherwise. Instead, where an element of a citation would ordinarily be italicised according to the relevant rule of this Guide, Chinese characters forming that element should appear between guillemets (« »).
Title of Law (Jurisdiction) Promulgating Body, Order/Decree/Opinion Number, Full date of Promulgation, Pinpoint.
«中华人民共和国合同法» [Contract Law of the People's Republic of China] (People's Republic of China) National People's Congress, Order No 15, 15 March 1999.
«中华人民共和国物权法» [Property Law of the People's Republic of China] (People's Republic of China) National People's Congress, Order No 62, 16 March 2007.
AGLC rule 16.3
Book – print or electronic
FirstName LastName, Title (Publisher, Edition, Year) Pinpoint.
Tim Prenzler, Ethics and Accountability in Criminal Justice: Towards a Universal Standard (Australian Academic Press, 2nd ed, 2013).
Kelley Burton, Thomas Crofts and Stella Tarrant, Principles of Criminal Law in Queensland and Western Australia (Lawbook, 2011) 80-1.
Michael Kirby, Paradoxes and Principles (Federation Press, 2011) 74.
William Strunk, Jr and E. B. White, The Elements of Style (Allyn & Bacon, 4th ed, 2000).
M Davies et al, Focus: Torts (Lexis Butterworths, 8th ed, 2017) 317.
Use only abbreviated publisher details (sufficient to identify them and no more)
Omit unnecessary elements (e.g. edition, pinpoint)
AGLC rule 6.1-6.9
FirstName LastName, ‘Chapter Title’ in FirstName LastName (ed), Title (Publication Details) Starting page, Pinpoint.
Jeremy Waldron, ‘Do Judges Reason Morally?’ in Grant Huscroft (ed), Expounding the Constitution: Essays in Constitutional Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2008) 38.
AGLC rule 6.6.1 - 6.6.2
Subsequent references (see rule 1.4.1) to a chapter from an edited book should use the names of the authors of that particular chapter and should refer to the footnote in which the chapter is first cited.
If there are two or three authors, the names of all authors should be included and the word ‘and’ should separate the names of the last two authors.
If there are more than three authors, the name of the author appearing first on the source should be included, followed by ‘et al’.
AGLC rule 4.1.2
Firstname Lastname (ed), Book title: Subtitle (Publisher, year).
Peter Birks (ed), New Perspectives in the Roman Law of Property: Essays for Barry Nicholas (Claredon Press, 1989).
Cedric Ryngaert et al (eds), Judical Decisions on the Law of International Organizations (Oxford University Press, 2016).
RG Frey and Christopher Heath Wellman (eds), A Companion to Applied Ethics (Blackwell Pub Ltd, 2003).
AGLC rule 4.1.3
Publisher, Title, Volume number (at Full Date) Title number Name of Title, ‘Chapter Number Name of Chapter’ [Paragraph].
LexisNexis, Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, vol 50 (at 5 November 2019) 330 Primary Industry, ‘3 Fisheries’ [330-2000].
LexisNexis, Halsbury's Law of England (online at 5 November 2019) 50 Consequences of the Bankruptcy, ‘Consequences of the Bankruptcy for the Bankrupt,’ [635].
AGLC Rule 7.7
With online Encyclopaedias the ‘vol” number is replaced with (online at Date of retrieval)
Dictionary Title (online at Date of Retrieval) ‘Entry Title’ (def Definition Number).
Dictionary Title (Edition Number ed, Publication Year) ‘Entry Title’ (def definition Number).
Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary (online at 20 February 2018) ‘default judgement’ (def 1).
Macquarie Dictionary (5th ed, 2009) ‘handle’ (def 2).
Chambers Dictionary (13th ed, 2014) ‘éclair’.
A Dictionary of Law (9th ed, 2018) ‘kidnapping’.
Blacks law Dictionary (9th ed, 2009) ‘divided custody’.
AGLC rule 7.6
Journal article – print or electronic
FirstName LastName, ‘Title’ (Year) Volume.Issue Journal Starting Page, Pinpoint.
FirstName LastName, ‘Title’ [Year] Journal Starting Page, Pinpoint.
Reinhard Zimmermann and Jacques Du Plessis, ‘Basic Features of the German Law of Unjustified Enrichment’ [1994] 14 Restitution Law Review 21.
Gary Edmond et al, ‘Law's Looking Glass: Expert Identification Evidence Derived from Photographic and Video Images' (2009) 20 Current Issues in Criminal Justice 337.
Round brackets should be used where a journal is organised by year. Square brackets should be used where a journal is organised by volume. See also Cases > Report Series.
AGLC rule 5.1 - 5.11
Author, ‘Title’, Newspaper (online) Date <URL>.
‘Xanana Gusmao offers to give evidence that could embarrass Australia in Witness K trial’ ABC Premium News (online), 5 November 2019 < https://web-a-ebscohost-com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/ehost/detail/detail?vid=4&sid=74d09e25-7eee-41c4-b089-55904c7d1848%40sdc-v-sessmgr03&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=P6S364698911619&db=anh>.
‘Fishing law changes in Queensland.’ Bowen Independent (online), 5 November 2016 < https://web-a-ebscohost-com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/ehost/detail/detail?vid=4&sid=8374b027-0502-4dc7-a23a-6b06feb8940f%40sessionmgr4007&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=9X9BOWNEWSMMGLSTRY000402254944&db=anh>.
AGLC rule 7.11.2
Author, 'Title', Section, Newspaper (Place of Publication, Full Date) Pinpoint.
Editorial, ‘Medicare by Name, No Longer by Nature’, News, The Age (Melbourne, 12 March 2004) 12.
Stephanie Peatling, 'Female Chief Justice Rewrites the Script', The Age (Melbourne, 31 January 2017) 6.
Abigail Hunter, 'He Stole My Son, Now I'm Alone in Hell', Times2, The Times (London, 3 December 2009) 3.
Only use 'Section' where article appears in non-consecutively paginated section.
AGLC rule 7.11.1
Looseleaf publication
Publisher, Title, vol number (at Service Number or Full Date) Pinpoint
JW Carter, LexisNexis, Carter on Contract (at 20 February 2018) [19-001].
AGLC rule 7.8
Username, ‘Title’ (Media Platform, Full Date, Time) <URL>.
Queensland Law Society, ‘Modern Advocate Lecture Series 2019’ (YouTube, 5 November 2019) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhIru7j_TqE>.
AGLC rule 7.16
Author, ‘Document Title’, Web Page Title (Document Type, Full Date) Pinpoint <URL>.
High Court of Australia, ‘High Court Bulletin’, High Court of Australia (PDF, 25 October 2019)9 < http://www.hcourt.gov.au/assets/library/hcabulletin/HighCourtBulletin2019_8.pdf>.
‘James Edelman’, High Court of Australia (Web Page) <http://www.hcourt.gov.au/justices/current/justice-james-edelman>.
Martin Clark, ‘Koani v The Queen’, Opinions on High (Blog Post, 18 October 2017) http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2017/10/18/koani-case-page/>, archived at <https://perma.cc/FD2P-M22L>.
Omit author name if no author name is available.
AGLC rule 7.15
Speaker, “Title” (Speech, Forum, Location, Full date).
Justice Dyson Heydon, ‘Threats to Judicial Independence: The Enemy Within’ (Speech, Inner Temple, 23 January 2012).
Lord Sumption, ‘The Limits of Law’ (Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture, Kuala Lumpur, 20 November 2013).
AGLC rule 7.3
Author(s), ‘Title’ (Conference Paper, Name of Conference, Full Date).
David Chessell, ‘Financial Centralisation: The Lion in the Path,’ (Conference Paper, Inaugural Conference of The Samuel Griffith Society, 24 July 1992).
Date should be in the form Day Month Year.
AGLC rule 7.2.4
Author(s), ‘Title’ (Degree, University, Year).
Helen O’Sullivan, ‘The Right to Silence at Trial: A Critique and a Call for a New approach’ (PhD Thesis, Griffith University, 2007).
Where applicable, the full name of the relevant university or institution’s name should be used. The department or faculty to which the thesis or dissertation was submitted should not be included.
AGLC rule 7.2.5
Body text,1 some other body text.2
Arbitral tribunals are empowered to make orders to preserve the integrity of their own proceedings.1 While this power is usually explicitly conferred by arbitral rules,2 it is in any event a power inherently held by the tribunal.3
1. Christophe Schreuer, The ICSID Convention: A Commentary (Cambridge University Press, 1990).
2. London Court of International Arbitration Rules (2014) art 14.4(ii).
3. Hrvatska Elektroprivreda d.d. v. Republic of Slovenia, (Decision) (2005), ARB/05/24 1.
Footnote numbers should appear in superscript, after any relevant punctuation.
Each footnote entry should end with a period (full-stop).
Learn how to insert footnotes and endnotes in Word for Office 365, Word 2019/2016/2013/2010/2007.
Case name (Year) Volume Series Page, pinpoint .
Treaty title, date opened, Treaty series, pinpoint.
Author, 'Article title' (Year), Volume(number) Journal title starting page, pinpoint .
Bunning v Cross (1978) 141 CLR 54, 66.
Norton v The Queen [2001] WASCA 207, [54].
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, opened for signature 23 May 1969, 1155 UNTS 331, art 19(c).
Julian Murphy, 'Homelessness and Public Space Offences in Australia – A Human Rights Orientated Case for Narrow Interpretation' (2019) 7(1) Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity 103, 114.
Pinpoints appear at the end of a footnote.
A pinpoint should be separated from the citation with a comma.
Where a report or article has page numbers, just the page number should be included.
Where a report or article uses paragraph numbers, the paragraph number should be enclosed in square brackets.
Article art Articles arts
Chapter ch Chapters chs
Division div Divisions divs
Paragraph para Paragraphs paras
Part pt Parts pts
Schedule sch Schedules schs
Section s Sections ss
Subsection sub-s Subsections sub-s
The terms 'Ibid' and 'Cross-References' are used when referring to sources that have already been cited.
37. Previous full citation.
38. Ibid .
Author’s Lastname (n footnote number) Pinpoint.
Case Name (n Footnote Number) Pinpoint.
Legislation title (n Footnote Number) Pinpoint.
37. Wilson v Bauer Media [2017] VSC 527.
39. Ibid, 71.
11. Kylie Burns, '"In this Day and Age": Social Facts, Common Sense and Cognition in Tort Law Judging in the United Kingdom' (2018) 45.2 Journal of Law and Society, 226.
12. Montgomery v. Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11 ('Montgomery')
13. Burns (n 11) 15.
14. Montgomery (n 12) 17.
Use Ibid to refer to the immediately preceding citation.
Ibid may be used more than once consecutively.
Ibid may be used with pinpoints.
Use this rule to refer to previously cited footnotes that do not immediately precede the current one.
Where referring to the immediately preceding footnote, 'Ibid' should be used.
Use the author's Lastname or abbreviated case or legislation name
No punctuation (commas, apostrophes et cetera) should be used.
Ordinal indicators ('th', 'rd', 'st') are not used.
Consult the manual and authoritative web sites for more information.
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Acknowledge sources and authors in your writing using consecutive superscript reference numbers. These numbers correspond to the footnote reference numbers.
In regards to the German civil code, Zimmermann and Du Plessis state general enrichment was 'the most outstanding feature of the German law of unjustified enrichment'.1
The legislation2 indicates that.....
The Court held in Alati v Kruger3 that...
Footnote examples:
1 Reinhard Zimmermann and Jacques Du Plessis, ‘Basic Features of the German Law of Unjustified Enrichment’ [1994] 14 Restitution Law Review 21.
2 Weapons Act 1990 (Qld) s 51(1).
3 Alati v Kruger (1955) 94 CLR 216.
insert footnote numbers as superscripts 2, 9, 11, after any relevant punctuation
add a full stop to the end of each footnote entry
using ‘Ibid’ where a footnote relates to the preceding reference
using ‘Cross References’ to refer to a previously used footnote which does not immediately precede the current one. Replace ‘n’ with the footnote number of the reference.
Where a bibliography is required it lists all sources that were relied upon, not just those cited in-text or in footnotes. Place the bibliography on a new page at the end of your assignment and centre the heading of "Bibliography".
divide citations into sections with the following headings: A Articles/Books/Report, B Cases, C Legislation, D Treaties, E Other
omit sections or include other sections as deemed necessary
invert the first author's name in the bibliography for example: Surname, FirstName -- Dehm, Sara
list citations under each section heading alphabetically by surname by the first listed author
sort authors with the same last name alphabetically according to their first names
sort multiple works by the one author in alphabetical order by title
do not place a full stop at the end of the citation
do not include pinpoint references in the bibliography.
For more information consult manual rule 1.13.
Dehm, Sara, ‘Witchcraft Accusations as Gendered Persecution in Refugee Law’ (2018) 28 (2) Social & Legal Studies 202
Mitchell, Andrew, Tania Voon and Jarrod Hepburn, ‘Taxing tech: Risks of an Australian digital services tax under international economic law’ (2019) 20 (1) Melbourne Journal of International Law 88
Schloenhardt, Andreas, Queensland Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 4th ed, 2015)
R v Major [2015] 2 Qd R 307
G20 (Safety and Security) Bill 2013 (Qld)
Serious and Organised Crime Legislation Amendment Act 2016 (Qld)
Treaty between Australia and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste establishing their maritime Boundaries in the Timor sea, Australia-Timor-Leste Signed 6 March 2018, (not yet in force)
Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (Final report, February 2019) Vol 2
Consult the official manual and library law guide for more information.
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