TABL 1710 - Quick Style Guide 2019 PDF

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UNSW Business School Taxation and Business Law

Quick Style Guide This quick style guide contains information about how to present and reference your work in Business and the Law. The School of Taxation and Business Law This is different from the Harvard style of referencing that you may be familiar with from your other subjects.

1. Presenting your assignment Your assignment must be submitted electronically through Turnitin on Moodle. Assignments should be typed in or equivalent font and have adequate margins. Use Your assignment should include . You should reference your assignment using the rules in the available at http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/mulr/aglc. Section 2 below contains some examples of how to apply the AGLC to the different types of sources you might use in your assignment. The word limit for the assignment is calculated by reference to all text in the assignment. This excludes citations and references in the footnotes and the bibliography, but includes discursive text within footnotes. Some style tips to assist with your writing are set out on section 3.

2. Referencing Referencing means acknowledging the sources for the information and ideas in your writing. Referencing and citing sources are a vital part of academic and legal writing. Your assignment must fully and properly cite all the sources on which you have drawn. Using the words or ideas of another person without acknowledgement is plagiarism and amounts to academic misconduct. In your assignment, you may need to refer to a range of materials including different Acts, Regulations, cases (that is, decisions of courts and tribunals), books, and websites. Here are some examples of how to cite these types of sources. You can also refer to the quick guide to the AGLC system of referencing available at https://law.unimelb.edu.au/lawlibrary/research-tools/citation-guides/legal-citation-style-guides.

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CRICOS Code 00098G

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Legislation Australian Consumer Law s 29. Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 1043A. Corporations Regulations 2001 (Cth) reg 7.10.01.

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Cases Hoyt’s Pty Ltd v Spencer (1919) 27 CLR 133. Woolworths Limited v BP plc (No 2) [2006] FCAFC 132.

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Books and chapters in books Nickolas James, Business Law (Wiley, 4th ed, 2017). Olivia Dixon, ‘Corporate Criminal Liability: The Influence of Corporate Culture’ in Justin O’Brien and George Gilligan (eds), Integrity, Risk and Accountability in Capital Markets – Regulating Culture (Hart Publishing, 2013) 251.

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Internet materials Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Cartels https://www.accc.gov.au/business/anti-competitive-behaviour/cartels.

3. Style tips Following these style tips will help to improve your writing in Taxation and Business Law. Above all, remember the aim is to share what you know through your writing in a way that is interesting, engaging and easy to follow, and demonstrates your mastery of the material and the method.

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Headings: Capitalise the first word and proper nouns only; different level headings should be consistently formatted. Do not use too many heading levels –

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Footnotes: These should not be used to make substantive points; they should be explanatory only and kept to a minimum. All bibliographical details, case citations etc. should be contained in the footnotes, not in text. Footnote signifiers (that is, the little number) should appear after punctuation and quotations.

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Abbreviations: Keep periods to a minimum – for example, ‘ACCC’ not ‘A.C.C.C.’; ‘A Gibson’ not ‘A. Gibson’.

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Acronyms: When first used, put the full name or phrase followed by the acronym in brackets - for example, ‘Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)’. Subsequently you can just use the acronym. Acronyms are preceded by ‘the’ only if they

are not usually pronounced as a word. For example, ‘ASIC’ but ‘the ACCC’. Acronyms are not italicised.

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Quotations: Quotations of A quotation within a quotation should have double inverted commas. Quotations of more than 30 words should be indented, without quotation marks and in a smaller font.

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Dates: Use the forms ’24 May 2015’, ‘nineteenth century’, ‘1980s’, ‘1992-97’.

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Initial citations: The full citation should always be used when a source is first mentioned – that is, the form of citation shown in section 2.

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Pinpoint citation: Each citation should, where relevant, also include the ‘pinpoint’ reference – that is, the exact paragraph, section or page you are referring to. For example, Woolworths Limited v BP plc (No 2) [2006] FCAFC 132 at [20].

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Subsequent citations: Each subsequent time a source is cited you can use an abbreviated form – for example, Corporations Act s 1325; Woolworths at [34]; Gibson and Fraser, above n 2, 45; Howell, above n 4, 550. The ‘n’ number in the last two examples is the number of the footnote that contains the full citation to the relevant source. ‘Ibid’ can be used to refer to a source in the immediately preceding footnote. If the pinpoint reference is the same, use ‘Ibid’ on its own; otherwise include the new pinpoint reference as well – for example, ‘Ibid 45-6’.

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Language: Use plain English and gender neutral language. Pay attention to your tone and voice, which should be measured, balanced and objective. Avoid colloquialisms, grammatical contractions (for example, use ‘do not’ instead of ‘don’t’), slang, verbosity and emotive language. Be careful to check your sentence structure, and use the Macquarie Dictionary Australian spelling.

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Grammar and punctuation: Check your grammar and punctuation against the guides provided by the Macquarie Dictionary at https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/view/resource/20/ (for grammar) and https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/view/resource/6/ (for punctuation)....