AGLC4 Rule 1.4.5: Abbreviations and Defined Terms
Abbreviations and defined terms may be used for convenience. They are introduced in round brackets and single quotation marks right after the full expression or the definition, which must always be spelt out first. They may be introduced in the text or in a discursive footnote; one introduced only in a footnote must be defined again in the text when the text first uses it, but one introduced in the text need not be repeated in the footnotes.
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Formatting
- Form: round brackets enclosing single curly quotation marks around the abbreviation or term, placed directly after the full form or the definition.
- The abbreviation or defined term is roman.
- A defined term may take "the" outside the quotation marks: (the ‘CDOs’).
- Abbreviations are written without full stops (rule 1.6.1).
In the text
Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd (‘CFC’) invested in collateralised debt obligations of mortgage-backed securities issued by Duke Funding XI Ltd and Duke Funding XI Corp (the ‘CDOs’).91
Forms in the rule
Quoted from the Guide, page 13- (‘CFC’)
- (the ‘CDOs’)
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.