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OSCOLA referencing: Booksimage of gavel

Include the following information in a footnote for a book:

Author, Book title (Edition, Publisher Year)

Example:

  • D Miers, Regulating Commercial Gambling: Past Present and Future (OUP 2004)

If there is more than one author insert an 'and' before the last author's name. The edition should be included where the book is in its second edition or beyond. If citing information from a specific page, add the page number directly after the reference.

Example:

  • N Lowe and G Douglas, Bromley's Family Law (10th edn, OUP 2007) 47

Tips:

    • All the information you need to reference a book is usually on the title page. This is one of the first pages of the book and has the copyright information on the back.
    • Where there are more than three authors, note the first author followed by 'and others'. More examples of citations with multiple authors.
    • Use commas only to prevent words running together, for example between multiple authors or between edition and publisher.
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PILOT - 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 4.0 International License. Based on a work at https://ilrb.cf.ac.uk/citingreferences/oscola/tutorial/