About the Australian Guide to Legal Citation
The Australian Guide to Legal Citation is the standard referencing style guide used by the School of Law. A full copy of the guide can be found below:
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Australian Guide to Legal Citation by Publication Date: 2018
About referencing
This referencing style guide provides a set of rules on how to acknowledge the thoughts, ideas and works of others when you use them in your own work.
Many types of publication examples have been provided in this guide. If you cannot find the example you need, you can:
- consult the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed)
- type the title of the item into Library Search to see if it has a suggested citation
- view articles, published after 2018, in publications that use the AGLC4 such as Melbourne University Law Review or Melbourne Journal of International Law
- adapt the rules of a similar publication type to the item
- consult other institutions’ style guides
- consult the Instructions to authors, if writing for a journal
- consult with your tutor or course coordinator.
Further resources
Introduction to legal referencing
Watch Introduction to legal referencing (YouTube, 9min 22 sec) to find out more about the basics of legal referencing.