Quick referencing guide

(Prepared by Associate Professor Keturah Whitford)

For further detail refer to the Australian Guide to Legal Citation.
Examples:

Cases: (see pp 37 - 46 AGLC)

Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562.
Note that the case name is in italics. The citation is not.

Legislation: (see pp 64 - 70 AGLC)

Civil Law (Wrongs) Act 2002 (ACT)
Note that the name of the Act and the year are in italics. The jurisdiction is not.

Books: (see p 89 AGLC)

Stephen Graw, David parker, Keturah Whitford, Elfriede Sangkuhl and Christina Do,
Understanding Business Law, (LexisNexis, 7th ed, 2015).

Journal articles: (see p 81 AGLC)

Justice Michael Kirby, Is Legal History now Ancient History? (2009) 83 Australian Law
Journal 31.

Websites: (see pp 116 119 AGLC)

International Whaling Commission, IWC Information(29 September 2009)
<http://www.iwcoffice.org/commission/iwcmain.htm>.
Quotations:
In the body of the text and in the footnotes, short quotations (of three lines or less) should be
incorporated within single quotation marks. Long quotations (of more than three full lines)
should appear indented from the left margin, in a smaller font size, and without quotation
marks. Legislative and treaty extracts, regardless of length, may also appear this way. Where

a long quotation appears in a footnote, the citation of the source should appear on the line
directly preceding or following the quotation.
Subsequent references: (see pp 7 8 AGLC for general subsequent references and pp 62
63 for subsequent references to cases and pp 78 - 79 for subsequent references to legislation)
Subsequent references (general)
In the list below footnotes 2, 3 and 5 are all to Stephen Graw, David Parker, Keturah
Whitford , Elfriede Sangkuhl and Christina Do, Understanding Business Law, ( LexisNexis
7th edition 2015).
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Stephen Graw, David Parker, Keturah Whitford, Elfriede Sangkuhl and Christina Do, Understanding
Business Law, (LexisNexis 7th edition 2015).
Ibid.
Ibid 123.
Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562.
Graw et al, Understanding Business Law, above n 1, 23.

Subsequent references (cases)

In the list below footnotes 2, 3 and 5 are all to Donoghue v Stevenson. Use ibid if the
previous footnote is the same. Use a short title where there has been an earlier footnote and
other footnotes intervene.
1 .Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562.
2. Ibid
3. Ibid 565-570.
4. Commonwealth of Australia v Introvigne (1982) 150 CLR 258.
5. Donoghue [1932] AC 562.

Subsequent references (legislation)

In the list below footnotes 12, 13 and 15 are all to the Northern Territory National
Emergency Response Act 2007 (Cth). You can use a short title (given at the first reference in
brackets) for subsequent references.
12 Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007 (Cth) s 3 (NTNER Act).
13 Ibid s 8.
14 Commonwealth of Australia v Introvigne (1982) 150 CLR 258.
15 NTNER Act s 5.