LAWS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bloomsbury Publishing, Murdoch University, Australian Contract Law
LAWS 104 - LEGAL READING, WRITING & READING
Wk. 5 - Legal citation AGLC
Rule 4.1 Author
Authors name should be as in the source document
Titles to be omitted except for Sir, Dame and peerage title
Where there are multiple authors rule 1.14.2 should be followed that is;
Where they are two or three, all names are to be included with ‘and’
separating the names of the last two authors.
If above 3 first author should be stated with ‘et al’
Journal Article rule 4.1;author
Justice Michael Kirby ‘ Is Legal History Now Ancient History?’ (2009) 83
Australian Law Journal 31.
MAKE SURE THE JOURNAL NAME IS IN ITALICS
Rule 4.2 Title: should not be italicised but should have single quotation marks.
Rule 4.3 Year: Journals organised by volume appear in parenthesis while those by
year appear in square brackets.
Rule 4.4 Volume and Issue: For journals organised by volumes. The Volumes number
comes after the year. Where it has issues they come after the volume in parenthesis
Rule 4.5 Journal: full title of the journal should be in italis. Note; journal title should
not be abbreviated. Example: Harvard Law Review not Harvard L Rev.
Rule 4.6 Starting Page: Number of the first page of the article should come after the
journal title.
Rule 4.7 Pinpoint Reference: it should come after the starting page but proceeded by a
comma and a space.
Rule 4.9 Articles Publishes in Electronic Journals: Electronic journal should be as
much applicable be cited as printed journals, where impractical to do so, note the
following
Pinpoint reference should be to page and paragraph numbers
Provide a URL (no dates should be included)
Internet Journal Article
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For journal articles that are available only on the web include:
URL within the symbols <…>
Volume or issue numbers, if applicable (e.g. 13(1))
Pinpoint, if available (e.g. 59)
E.g. Kate Lewins, ‘What’s the Trade Practices Act Got to Dot with It? Section
74 and Towage Contracts in Australia’ (2006) 13 (1) eLaw Journal: Murdoch
University Electronic Journal of Law 58, 59 <URL>
See rule 4.9
Rule 5.1: Author
Rule 5.1.1 General rule: authors’ name should appear exactly as they do on the
source.
Rule 5.1.2 Editors: Same as authors but followed by ‘(ed)’ for one editor and
‘(eds)’ for multiple editors.
Rule 5.2 Title: should appear in italics.
Rule 5.3: Publication Details
Rule 5.3.1 Publisher: Publisher name to be in parenthesis after the title followed by a
comma.
Rule 5.3.2 Edition Number and Date of First Publication: Edition number should be
included after the publisher’s name.
Rule 5.3.4 Publication Year comes after the publication details
Rule 5.4 Pinpoint Reference
Note:
1. Chapter title should be enclosed in single inverted comma.
2. No other punctuations between the chapter title and ‘in’.
3. Starting page is where the chapter cited begins.
Repeated References in Secondary Sources
•Give first reference in full.
•Subsequent references – refer back to the first reference.
Egs: footnote at foot of pageà
1.Catharine MacMillan, Mistakes in Contract Law (Hart Publishing, 2010) 38.
2 N C Seddon and M P Ellinghaus, Cheshire and Fifoot’s Law of Contract
(LexisNexis, 9th ed, 2008) 867.
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Document Summary
Laws 104 - legal reading, writing & reading. Authors name should be as in the source document. Titles to be omitted except for sir, dame and peerage title. Where there are multiple authors rule 1. 14. 2 should be followed that is; Where they are two or three, all names are to be included with and" separating the names of the last two authors. If above 3 first author should be stated with et al". Justice michael kirby is legal history now ancient history?" (2009) 83. Make sure the journal name is in italics. Rule 4. 2 title: should not be italicised but should have single quotation marks. Rule 4. 3 year: journals organised by volume appear in parenthesis while those by year appear in square brackets. Rule 4. 4 volume and issue: for journals organised by volumes. Where it has issues they come after the volume in parenthesis. Rule 4. 5 journal: full title of the journal should be in italis.
