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Australian Guide to Legal Citation 4th edition

This is a short guide to the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed)

Chapters in edited books

The full AGLC4 rule for chapters in edited books can be found at 6.6 on p 103.

Elements

Chapter author Title in Book editor/s Book title Publisher Edition Year Page Pinpoint
Peter Millett 'Proprietary Restitution' in Simon Degeling and James Edelman (eds), Equity in Commercial Law (Lawbook,   1994) 123 , 138.
  • Chapter author — as they appear on the title page of the item. 
  • Title — single quotation marks, no italics. Followed by 'in'
  • Book editor/s — names followed by '(ed/s),'
  • Book title — Italicise and capitalise title (except for articles, conjunctions and prepositions)
  • Publisher — the entity that published the book
  • Edition — if other than first
  • Year
  • Pinpoint

Example

  • Anil Hargovan, 'Business Structures' in Jason Harris, Anil Hargovan and Michael Evans (eds), Australian Corporate Law (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2nd ed, 2009) 45.