Vancouver follows guidelines outlined in The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation for all legal materials. Examples outlined below are for Australian legislation and case law. Please consult The Bluebook for other jurisdictions.
The Bluebook: a uniform system of citation (20th ed.) by Number. Title of Act Year (Jurisdiction) s section number (Country abbreviation, if not evident) URL
8. Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) (Austl.) http://www.comlaw.gov.au/
15. Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld) s 15 (Austl.).
Number. Name v Name (Year) Volume Reporter abbreviation First page (Country abbreviation, if not evident) URL
Number. Name v Name [Year of volume] Reporter abbreviation First page (Country abbreviation, if not evident) URL
Number. Name v Name [Year] Court abbreviation Decision number (Day Month Year of judgement) Pages (Country abbreviation, if not evident).
Number. Name v Name (Unreported, Court Name, Name of Judge, Day Month Year of judgement) Pages (Country abbreviation, if not evident).
9. Mace v Murray (1955) 92 CLR 370.
24. Glass v Commonwealth of Australia [2003] ACTCA 8 (31 March 2003).
26. Browne v Dunne (Unreported, Supreme Court of Queensland, Bland J, 22 July 1999) (Austl.).
Legislation - Statute (Enter Jurisdiction in Code)
Case Law - Reported - Case (Enter Year in Filed Date, leave Year Decided blank)
Case Law - Unreported - Case (Enter Year in Year Decided, leave Filed Date blank)
When citing a source you haven't read yourself, but which is referred to in a source you have read.
Lilly as cited in Maxwell (3) stated that '...'
Burton (5) quoted Schwartz ...
3. Maxwell F. Phonology. San Franisco: Brooks Cole; 1999.
5. Burton L, Westen D, Kowalski R. Psychology. Milton (Australia): Wiley; 2009.
If no author or editor is present, start your reference with the Title of the item.
5. Macroeconomics, prices and quantities: essays in memory of Arthur M. Okun. Oxford: Blackwell; 1983.
If no location is present substitute an inferred place [Chicago?] or the phrase [place unknown].
If no publisher is present substitute the phrase [publisher unknown].
If no year is present substitute an approximate date [1976?] or the phrase [date unknown].
7. Smythe V. Ant colonies: how they communicate. Canberra: Emu Press; [2007?].
12. Browne JD. Forensic science as a career. London: Tower Publishing; [date unknown].
16. Hawaii [map on the Internet]. [place, publisher, date unknown] [cited 2012 Jul 20]. Available from: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6Ckq2CCag0Q/Tr4plGlC-HI/AAAAAAAACLo/CjKZCLjyAvk/s1600/islands-of-hawaii-map.gif