Legislation and Case Law are usually cited in-text only. Only include Legislation and Case Law in a reference list if you also have non-legal material to include in a reference list or it is specifically required for the Unit. Please check with your Unit Convener.
Enter Legislation and Case Law under separate headings in your Reference List.
For details on the structure of in-text citations see the In-text Citation tab, then Special Cases.
Do not italicise titles in your reference list.
Use the following jurisdiction abbreviations for Australian legislation:
Short Title Year (Jurisdiction).
Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth)
Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld).
Marine Act 1981 (NT)
Do not italicise titles in your reference list.
Name of the Case [Year] Court abbreviation Decision number (Short title if available).
Name of the Case (Year) Volume Reporting Series abbreviation Starting page (Short title if available).
Name of the Case [Year] Volume Reporting Series abbreviation Starting page (Short title if available).
Glass v Commonwealth of Australia [2003] ACTCA 8.
Mace v Murray (1955) 92 CLR 370.
Kashemije Study Pty Ltd v Hawkes [1978] 1 NSWLR 143.
The State of New South Wales v The Commonwealth [1915] 20 CLR 54 (Wheat Case).
Legislation - Statute
Case (Unreported) - Case (type Year into Date Decided and Court abbreviation into Court)
Case (Reported) - Case (type Year into Filed Date and have nothing in Court or Date Decided)
There are no formal guidelines for citing a source within a source in the Style Manual. These instructions are based on the guidelines in the 6th edition of the Style Manual.
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 1999:25) stated that '...'
'...' (Schwartz as cited in Burton, Westen and Kowalski 2009:63)
Maxwell F (1999) Phonology, Brooks Cole, San Francisco.
Burton L, Westen D and Kowalski R (2009) Psychology, Wiley, Milton, Qld.