Journal
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One author
Entry in footnote
Author, 'Article Title' (Year) Volume(Issue) Journal Title Starting Page.
For example
Harold Luntz, 'A Personal Journey through the Law of Torts' (2005) 27(3) Sydney Law Review 393.
Entry in bibliography
Author, ‘Article Title’ (Year) Volume(Issue) Journal Title Starting Page
For example
Luntz, Harold, 'A Personal Journey through the Law of Torts' (2005) 27(3) Sydney Law Review 393
Style notes
- Names of authors should appear in accordance with rule 4.1. The author’s name must include a comma after it
- Article titles should appear in accordance with rule 4.2. The article title should appear within single quotes and should not be italicised
- For journals organised by volume number, the year of publication should appear in parentheses (round brackets)
- Both the volume and issue number should be included, with the issue number following the volume number in parentheses
- The full title of the journal should be italicised, 'the' should not be included at the start of the journal title
- The starting page is the number of the first page of an article, this should follow the title of the journal
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Two or three authors
Entry in footnote
Authors, 'Article Title' (Year) Volume(Issue) Journal Title Starting Page.
For example
Christine Eastwood, Sally Kift and Rachael Grace, 'Attrition in Child Sexual Assault Cases: Why Lord Chief Justice Hale Got It Wrong' (2006) 16(2) Journal of Judicial Administration 81.
Entry in bibliography
Authors, ‘Article Title’ (Year) Volume(Issue) Journal Title Starting Page
For example
Eastwood, Christine, Sally Kift and Rachael Grace, 'Attrition in Child Sexual Assault Cases: Why Lord Chief Justice Hale Got It Wrong' (2006) 16(2) Journal of Judicial Administration 81
Style notes
- Where there are two or three authors, the names of all authors should appear and the word 'and' should separate the names of the last two authors.
- Names of authors should appear in accordance with rule 4.1. The author’s name must include a comma after it
- Article titles should appear in accordance with rule 4.2. The article title should appear within single quotes and should not be italicised
- For journals organised by volume number, the year of publication should appear in parentheses (round brackets)
- Both the volume and issue number should be included, with the issue number following the volume number in parentheses
- The full title of the journal should be italicised, 'the' should not be included at the start of the journal title
- The starting page is the number of the first page of an article, this should follow the title of the journal
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More than three authors
Entry in footnote
Authors, 'Title of Article' (Year of Publication) Volume (Issue) Journal Title Starting Page.
For example
Richard Mitchell et al, 'Shareholder Protection in Australia: Institutional Configurations and Regulatory Evolution' (2014) 38(1) Melbourne University Law Review 68.
Entry in bibliography
Authors, ‘Title of Article’ (Year of Publication) Volume(Issue) Journal Title Starting page
For example
Mitchell, Richard et al, 'Shareholder Protection in Australia: Institutional Configurations and Regulatory Evolution' (2014) 38(1) Melbourne University Law Review 68
Style notes
- Where there are more than three authors, the name of the author appearing first on the source should be included followed by 'et al'
- Names of authors should appear in accordance with rule 4.1. The author’s name must include a comma after it
- Article titles should appear in accordance with rule 4.2. The article title should appear within single quotes and should not be italicised
- For journals organised by volume number, the year of publication should appear in parentheses (round brackets)
- Both the volume and issue number should be included, with the issue number following the volume number in parentheses
- The full title of the journal should be italicised, 'the' should not be included at the start of the journal title
- The starting page is the number of the first page of an article, this should follow the title of the journal
The following style notes provide a brief introduction to AGLC 4. For more detailed information, consult the AGLC 4, available as a free view only PDF on the AGLC website. Copies are available for loan from the Law Library High Use. You can order one from the AGLC website or purchase a copy from the Co-op Bookstore.
AGLC 4 is a footnote referencing system.
AGLC 4 is divided into five parts:
- Part 1: General rules (covering topics such as how to deal with subsequent references (rule 1.4) quotations (rule 1.5), and punctuation (rule 1.6)
- Part 2: Domestic sources (cases in chapter 2, legislation in chapter 3)
- Part 3: Secondary sources (such as general rules for citing secondary sources in chapter 4 and discussed below, journal articles in chapter 5, books in chapter 6, and more).
- Part 4: International materials
- Part 5: Foreign domestic materials (citing the laws of selected countries other than Australia)
Information about law report abbreviations, Australian Medium Neutral Citations and pinpoint abbreviations are included as appendices in the print edition.
Pay close attention to the general rules in part 1 and the general rules for citing secondary sources at the start of part 3. Many of the general rules found in these parts are cross referenced in rules for citing specific sources. For example, the general rules for citing secondary sources in chapter 4 cover:
- rules about citing authors’ and editors’ names including how to deal with post-nominals and honorific titles;
how to cite multiple authors; - publications authored by a body such as a government department or non-governmental organisation;
- citing judicial officers and former judicial officers, citing judges written judgments (curially), and citing judges writing in publications such as law reviews (extra-curially)
- how to cite titles, including punctuation, capitalisation, subtitles and italicisation, and rules for short titles;
- the inclusion of URLs and archived URLs using permalink
Rule 1.13 provides the rules for bibliographies. Where a bibliography is required it should list all sources that were relied upon, not only those referred to in the text and footnotes. Rule 1.13 also includes a suggestion of how to organise your bibliography according to source type.
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