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Unit 10 - Numerical Referencing

Using OSCOLA: Putting it all together

Using your knowledge of OSCOLA, select an answer to each of the six questions by clicking on it. The pop up window will tell you if you have chosen correctly.

Author

In which of the following footnote citations is the format of the author's name correct?

Journal title

In which of the following footnote citations is the journal title correctly formatted?

Cross-citation

In footnote 14, you wish to refer to page 401 of the journal article above, which was first cited in footnote 7. Which of the following is the correct means of cross-citing?

Quotations

You wish to quote word-for-word from the text of a judgment. The quote will be about four lines long. How will you present the text?

Legislation

In the text of your assignment you write "The Travel Concessions (Eligibility) Act 2002 equalised the entitlement to travel concessions for both men and women at the age of 60." How should you cite this legislation in the footnote?

Case law

You wish to cite the case of R. v Mirza (Shabbir Ali) which you found and read on Westlaw. The Where Reported section for the case on Westlaw includes the following citations amongst others. How would you cite the case?

[2004] UKHL 2
[2004] 1 A.C. 1118
[2004] 2 W.L.R. 201
[2004] 1 All E.R. 925
[2004] 2 Cr. App. R. 8
(2004) 154 N.L.J. 145
Times, January 23, 2004
2004 WL 61975

You have reached the end of the section. We hope that you now feel confident in using the OSCOLA system.

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SMILE - OSCOLA referencing by Cathie Jackson, Ian Bradley, Matthew Davies and Lynn Goodhew, Information Services, Cardiff University adapted by Marion Kelt Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at https://ilrb.cf.ac.uk/citingreferences/oscola/tutorial/.