OSCOLA referencing style is used when submitting work for a module for the School of Law.  Due to the complexity of particular sources, some entries are very detailed.  Make sure to fully read each page.

Company reports, Law Commission reports, publications from government departments, briefing or working papers, & market research reports.

If the item has an ISBN treat it as a book (check the copyright page or very last page for ISBNs). If it is identical to the print version, treat it as a print version.  If the document has nothing to indicate that it has ever been published in a hardcopy print format, or is not in pdf format i.e. electronic facsimile of the print version, provide the web address and date of access as required for websites.

 

Follow the standard pattern below but if the item is part of a recognised series, include the series title and number in round brackets after the title. Some types of report may have a corporate author (the name of the organization responsible for the report) - this goes in the author position.  If there is no identifiable author, use a double em dash if the author is not identified

 

Footnote form

Author, 'Title' (Additional information, edition if later than first, Publisher day Month year if available) page number if required.

 

Footnote examples

1 W Anderson and P Weatherburn, 'Treatment Information Needs of People Living with HIV' (Research report Nam Publications 1996).

2 AJ Birney and MM Hall, 'Early Identification of Children with Written Language Difficulties' (Report No. 81-502 National Educational Association 1981) 25.

3 H Marvin, 'Information and Experience in Architectural Design: A Report on a Research Project Commissioned by the Building Research Establishment, and Supported by the Building Centre Trust' (Research paper 23 University of York, Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies 1985) 10.

4 P Strickland and S Almandras, 'Crime and Security Bill No 3 2009/10' (Research Paper 09/97 House of Commons Library 2009).

5 J Harris and S Grace, 'A Question of Evidence? Investigating and Prosecuting Rape in the 1990s' (Home Office Research Study 196 Home Office 1999) 5.

6 Land Registry, 'Adverse Possession of (1) Unregistered Land (2) Registered Land where a Right to be Registered was Acquired before 13 October 2003' (Practice Guide 5 2008) 6.

7 Point Carbon Advisory Services, 'EU ETS Phase III - The Potential and Scale of Windfall Profits in the Power Sector: A Report for WWF' (March 2008) 11.

8 K Rogge, J Schleich and R Betz, 'An Early Assessment of National Allocation Plans for Phase 2 of EU Emission Trading' (Working Paper Sustainability and Innovation on Nr. S 1/2006 Franhofer Institute Systems and Innovation Research 2006).

9 Commission of the European Communities, 'Further Guidance on Allocation Plans for the 2008 to 2012 Trading Period of the EU Emission Trading Scheme' COM (2005) 703 final, 5.

10 Prime Minister's Office, 'Briefing on: Iraq, Musharraf, Georgia, Law and Order, Maternity Leave and Misc' (No 10 Press Briefing, 18 August 2008).

11 Amnesty International, 'Human Rights in Slovak Republic' (Report, 2009) <http://www.amnesty.org/region/slovak-republic/report-2009> accessed 23 February 2010.

 

Bibliography

Amnesty International, 'Human Rights in Slovak Republic' (Report, 2009) <http://www.amnesty.org/region/slovak-republic/report-2009> accessed 23 February 2010

Anderson W and Weatherburn P, 'Treatment Information Needs of People Living with HIV' (Research report Nam Publications 1996)

Harris J and Grace S, 'A Question of Evidence? Investigating and Prosecuting Rape in the 1990s' (Home Office Research Study 196 Home Office 1999)

Point Carbon Advisory Services, 'EU ETS Phase III - The Potential and Scale of Windfall Profits in the Power Sector: A Report for WWF' (March 2008)

Prime Minister's Office, 'Briefing on: Iraq, Musharraf, Georgia, Law and Order, Maternity Leave and Misc' (No 10 Press Briefing, 18 August 2008)

Rogge K, Schleich J and Betz R, 'An Early Assessment of National Allocation Plans for Phase 2 of EU Emission Trading' (Working Paper Sustainability and Innovation on Nr. S 1/2006 Franhofer Institute Systems and Innovation Research 2006)

 

Notes

Reference: Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, OSCOLA: Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (4th edn Oxford University 2010) 39.

 

A company report (or annual report) will have a corporate author. The name of the organisation responsible for the report goes in the author position but need not be repeated as publisher. The date of publication will depend on accounting year.  A pdf version of a company report accessed via the Internet would be identical to a print version and referenced in the same way.

Additional information, including a description of the document, a series number and any other details which may help the reader to locate the source should be referred to in parenthesis after the title.

 

Footnote form

Author, 'Title' (Additional information, Publication year) page number if required.

 

Footnote examples

1 Reed Elsevier, 'Annual Reports and Financial Statements 2007' (2008) 8.

 

Bibliography

Information on arranging the bibliography.

 

Notes

Reference: Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, OSCOLA: Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (4th edn Oxford University 2010) 39.

 

If the item has an ISBN treat it as a book (check the copyright page or very last page for ISBNs). If it is identical to the print version, treat it as a print version.  If the document has nothing to indicate that it has ever been published in a hard copy print format, or is not in pdf format i.e. electronic facsimile of the print version, provide the web address and date of access as required for websites.

 

Follow the standard pattern below but if the item is part of a recognised series, include the series title and number in round brackets after the title. Some types of report may have a corporate author (the name of the organization responsible for the report) - this goes in the author position.  If there is no identifiable author, use a double em dash if the author is not identified.

 

Footnote form

Government Department Reports

Author, Title (additional information, publisher year) pinpoint if necessary.

 

Law Commission Reports

Author, Title (Law Com/Scot Law Com number, year) pinpoint if necessary.

 

Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission reports are published and retrievable from the Law Commission website as pdfs so cite by title in italics, Law Com/Scot Law Com number and year.  For Law Commission consultation papers and Scottish Law Commission discussion papers, give the Law Com CP number or the Scot Law Com DP number.  Command Paper numbers need not be given.  If you can only access the item in an electronic format with no pagination, give the web address in angled brackets (< >), followed by the date of most recent access.

 

For Command Papers, see https://library.port.ac.uk/ref/page665.html#t665

 

Footnote examples

1 Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, 'Bigger, Better Business: Helping Small Firms Start, Grow and Prosper' (TSO 2011).

2 Home Office, 'Prisons Policy for England and Wales' (HMSO 1994).

3 Law Commission, Criminal Law a Criminal Code for England and Wales vols 1 & 2 (Law Com 177, 1989) 12.

4 Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, 'Queen's or Prince's Consent' (Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, July 2015) 4.

5Scottish Law Commission, Report on Remedies for Breach of Contract (Scot Law Com No 174, 1999) 7.

6 Land Registry, 'Adverse Possession of Registered Land' (Practice Guide 4, Land Registry June 2015) <www.gov.uk/government/publications/adverse-possession-of-registered-land/practice-guide-4-adverse-possession-of-registered-land> accessed 27 November 2015.

 

Bibliography

Home Office, 'Prisons Policy for England and Wales' (HMSO 1994)

Land Registry, 'Adverse Possession of Registered Land' (Practice Guide 4, Land Registry June 2015) <www.gov.uk/government/publications/adverse-possession-of-registered-land/practice-guide-4-adverse-possession-of-registered-land> accessed 27 November 2015

Law Commission, Criminal Law a Criminal Code for England and Wales vols 1 & 2 (Law Com 177, 1989)

Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, 'Queen's or Prince's Consent' (Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, July 2015)

Scottish Law Commission, Report on Remedies for Breach of Contract (Scot Law Com No 174, 1999)

 

Notes

Reference: Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, OSCOLA: Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (4th edn Oxford University 2010) 39.