AGLC4 Rule 1.4.2: References within a Text

A footnote may send the reader to another part of the same work with "above" or "below". The pinpoint may be to pages, parts or footnotes, and a footnote pinpoint may extend to the text the footnote supports.

AGLC4 page 10

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 10
See above Pinpoint.

A boxed element is filled in with the source's details; everything outside a box is written exactly as shown.

Formatting

  • Form: "See above" or "See below", one space, the pinpoint, then a full stop.
  • "See" is capitalised when it opens the footnote; "above" and "below" are lower case and roman.
  • Footnote pinpoints use "n" or, for a span, "nn" with the span shortened as for page spans.
  • "and accompanying text" may follow a footnote pinpoint, in roman.
  • A part of the work is cited with its own numbering and no space before its brackets: Part III(A)(1).

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 10
  1. 66
    See below nn 81–2 and accompanying text.
  2. 67
    See below Part III(A)(1).

See also

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Formats, examples, passages, tables and the forms marked Not are quoted from the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed, Melbourne University Law Review Association, 2018), with the page of the Guide they appear on. Titles, summaries and explanations are our own.