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The Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) was developed at Oxford University, andis widely used by law schools and publishers to acknowledge source information.

In-textcitations & footnotes

OSCOLAuses a footnote citation system.

In the text,a number in superscript1is added at the end of a sentence and after the punctuation.

Neville states that The Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal was involved in developing the OSCOLA referencing system.1

Thereference is then given in the footnoteat the bottom of the page.

1Colin Neville,The Complete Guide to Referencing and Avoiding Plagiarism(2nd edn, OU Press 2010).

Where you cite an author of a secondary source their name should appear as it does on the publication with first name/ initials before surname.

For more detailed information, see OSCOLA 1.1 and 1.2

Bibliography

The bibliographyat the end of the document includes the full details of each source so the reader can find them themselves. The list is organised by type of source, and then alphabetically. See below for more details on organising the bibliography.

The information to include depends on the types of source - see the examples.