LAWS1111 AGCL lecture notes (for quiz) PDF

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LAWS1111 The AGLC4 • a referencing style that lawyers use to cite articles, books, legislation, international legal instruments, case law • Uses footnotes for all citations • Reference list at the end of the paper, that contains details of every source cited in the text • Don’t reference —> common knowledge • Reference —> any ideas that are NOT your own • Used within the UTS faculty of law Ten principles 1. Footnoting —> intext references appear in footnotes AND bibliography 2. Source Types 3. Every footnote ends in a fullstops 4. Pinpoint reference used if you need to refer to a specific section of a source eg. Using page numbers to show exactly where you have found a quote —> can be a section, page or paragraph depending on source 5. Ibid —> same source in consecutive footnotes, use the term ibid to indicate the repeated source in stead of referencing same source. Can use ibid with different pinpoints if you’re referring to different part of a source 6. n(footnote number) —> source you mentioned in an earlier footnote, but not immediately previous one, use (n earlier footnote number). Do this for all repeated references that are not in consecutive footnotes, including cases and

legislation 7. Quotations: ‘ …. ‘ —> short quotations on single line. QUOTATIONS LONGER THAN 3 LINES indented from the left margin in smaller font and without quotations. 8. Inclusion: Every source, even if you don’t put it in footnotes, is in bibliography 9. Bibliography divided into 5 sections: Articles books and reports, cases, legislation, treaties and other —> you can leave out any other section if you don’t have that kind of reference 10.Authors in bibliography —> First authors name: surname, first-name. Two or more authors, only first name and surname are inverted, rest of the names appear as they do in footnote 11.References in bibliography never have full stops

• in aglc —> footnotes are sequestial, every footnote, no matter if you use the same source, has a different footnote number, sources a repeated/used multiple times

Journal Article Author (NOT INVERTED), ‘Article Title’ (Year published) volume number(Issue number) Journal Title, number of first page of article, pinpoint reference. FULL STOP NOTES • the ‘the’ in the beginning of the journal title should be omitted • Subtitles of the journal should be omitted where it does not cause ambiguity • Pinpoint —> eg 1-9 if the article spans that long, or just 1, even if repeated from starting page reference • If an article is published in parts, a full citation should be given for each part cited —> any reference of part WITHIN the title should be omitted • (Part number) should be inserted between the journal title and the year IN ONE FOOTNOTE Between TWO sources, you place a semi-colon...