AGLC4 Rule 1.8.2: Italicisation of Source Titles
Case names, statute and treaty titles and other titles the Guide italicises are italic in the body and in discursive footnote text, whether or not a citation accompanies them. They are also italicised inside quotations regardless of how the source prints them, without any parenthetical note. Italics within citations follow rule 4.2.
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Formatting
- Italicise these titles in the text and in footnote prose, including short forms such as the Charter.
- Italicise them inside quotations too, and do not add (emphasis added) for doing so.
- In citations, which titles are italic and which are in quotation marks is governed by rule 4.2.
- A word inside a roman article title that is not itself a case or other italicised title stays roman.
Example
Quoted from the Guide, page 26- 145Ann Elizabeth Mayer, ‘Reflections on the Proposed United States Reservations to CEDAW: Should the Constitution Be an Obstacle to Human Rights?’ (1996) 23(3) Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 727.
In the text
However, there is one key provision — s 39(1) — of the Charter that is unique:
If, otherwise than because of this Charter, a person may seek any relief or remedy … on the ground that the act or decision was unlawful, that person may seek that relief or remedy on a ground of unlawfulness arising because of this Charter. [Original: … Charter … Charter …]
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.