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Getting Started: Researching and Referencing

OSCOLA Referencing (LAW ONLY)

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• OSCOLA Official Guide (4th ed)

The Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) is designed to help the author to achieve consistency and to make life easier for the reader.

Referencing Tips & OSCOLA (video)
This video will cover referencing tips for students at any level. It will also show students where to go to find more help with referencing.

OSCOLA FAQ
Includes updates for changes to citation of EU and retained EU Legislation following Brexit and other changes to citation of EU cases and legislation. Also provides examples for:

A source cited in a secondary source
A judgment citing another judgment
eBooks
Book reviews
Radio programmes
Speeches
Dictionaries
Podcasts, YouTube etc

Note: The suggestions on this page have not yet been discussed and approved by the OSCOLA editorial board.

• Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations

• Law Reports: Hierarchy and the Status of Authorities

• Citing Foreign Legal Resources

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• OSCOLA Citing International Sources Section

The OSCOLA Guide (4th ed) does not include international law. Use the guidance from the 2006 edition.

Use this guide to cite:

International treaties
Regional treaties
International Court of Justice publications
United Nations documents
International Yearbooks
Collected Courses of The Hague Academy of International Law
International Law Association
International Law Digests

When citing foreign cases or legislature from outside of the UK (not included in the list above), you need to use the legal citation style for that specific country as recommended by the official OSCOLA guide (see pages 49-50).

Australia
Australian Guide to Legal Citation

Canada
Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (also known as the "McGill Guide") [library guide from Carleton University]

France
Follow the form of citation and presentation generally adopted by the Recueil Dalloz.

Germany
Abkürzungsverzeichnis der Rechtssprache [print only]

Ireland
OSCOLA Ireland

Israel
'The Uniform Citation Rules' (1989) 39 The Lawyer and (1998) 44 The Lawyer (in Hebrew).

New Zealand
New Zealand Law Style Guide

South Africa
Follow the style used in the South African Law Journal.

USA
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation [print only]
Legal Information Institute (Cornell University library guide)