OSCOLA
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.
In a legal or academic piece of work you are expected to support your arguments with relevant authoritative sources. You should footnote both primary and secondary sources as appropriate wherever necessary. When using sources, either by direct quotation or by paraphrasing, they should be cited in a footnote.
A footnote is marked with a superscript number,1 which should appear after any punctuation and is usually found at the end of a sentence.2 If a footnote relates to an item in brackets (as here3) it should appear before the closing bracket. According to OSCOLA 'a quotation need not be footnoted separately from the name of the source from which it is derived if the two appear in the same sentence.'4
1 If citing several items in a list you can cite each in a separate footnote after each comma or place a single footnote marker at the end of the sentence and include all the items in the footnote in order (chronological) separating them from each other by a semi-colon. If one is most relevant you can give it precedence and insert See also before listing the less relevant items.
2 The full stop may be replaced by a a question mark or exclamation mark.
3 Square brackets in OSCOLA are reserved for specific uses.
4 Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, OSCOLA: Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (4th edn Oxford University 2010) 3.