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Posted: July 31st, 2022
AGLC Referencing Style
AGLC (Australian Guide to Legal Citation) is a footnoting referencing system widely used by legal practitioners, law students, and researchers in legal writing. This style was developed by the Melbourne University Law Review in association with the Melbourne Journal of International Law to create a standard and uniform referencing style in the production of legal manuscripts across Australia and beyond.
The AGLC citation style consists of two main parts: In-text citation and the bibliography. The in-text citations are presented within the body of the document using superscript numbers. A list of footnotes showing all the in-text citations used on that page is inserted at the bottom of each page. While not obligatory, the bibliography should be presented at the end of the document and lists in detail all the sources used within the text, as well as other materials used for further reading.
With in-text citations, wherever you quote or paraphrase information from another writer’s work, you must cite their source within the text by adding superscript numbers after the relevant sentence. These numbers must be consecutive and should be added after the concluding punctuations at the end of the sentence.
Example of in-text citation
Young and Monahan discuss the implications of this ruling.1
Footnotes list all the citations made in the text of the essay at the end of each page. The entries are made sequentially in the order in which they appear in the text. Each superscript citation number corresponds to a numbered footnote at the bottom of the page, which provides a full reference to the source. The entries in the footnote consist of the following information:
Author’s first name or initials, surname, Title of the book in italics, name of the publisher, edition number, year of publication, and page numbers.
Footnote Example
1. Christine Gray, International Law and the Use of Force (Oxford University Press, 2000) 21.
Reference List
The bibliography is presented at the end of the document and lists all sources used, including the in-text citations and the footnotes. Entries are made alphabetically under each heading. AGLC recommends that the entries in the bibliography be divided according to various divisions, including articles/books/reports, cases, legislation, treaties, and others.
Example of a book citation entry in the bibliography
Burton, Kelley, Thomas Crofts, and Stella Tarrant, Principles of Criminal Law in Queensland and Western Australia (Lawbook, 2011)
An example of an article entry
Bennett, Belinda, Terry Carney, and Caroline Saint, ‘Swine flu, doctors and pandemics : is there a duty to treat during a pandemic?’ (2010) 17 Journal of Law and Medicine 736
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