AGLC4 Rule 26.1.1: Non-English Primary Materials Translated by Author

When the author, or someone for the author, translates non-English primary material, each translated element is followed by its English translation in square brackets, and the citation ends with a notice naming the translator. The author may instead state once, in the text, an author's note or the first footnote containing a translation, that all translations are the author's, after which only translations by someone else carry a notice.

AGLC4 page 290

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 290
[tr Translator’s Name]

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

Formatting

  • The translation of an element sits in square brackets immediately after it, with a single space before the bracket.
  • The translation is roman even where the original title is italic.
  • A non Latin script is not italicised unless that script's convention does so; any conventional equivalent of italics is used instead.
  • The translator notice comes at the very end of the citation, after the pinpoint, in square brackets: tr in roman lower case with no full stop, a space, then author or the translator's name.
  • The footnote's full stop follows the closing square bracket of the notice.
  • Either form is allowed: a blanket statement once (for example in an asterisk footnote) with no per citation notice, or a notice such as [tr author] in each footnote.
  • Even under a blanket statement, a translation made by someone other than the author carries its own notice naming that person.
  • A translated title takes English title capitalisation.
  • Jurisdiction follows the translation in round brackets, then any date and gazette details, then the pinpoint.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 290
  1. 1
    Urheberrechtsgesetz [Copyright Law] (Switzerland) 9 October 1992, SR 231.1, art 29(2)(a).
  2. 2
    Loi du 15 Décembre 1980 sur l’accès au Territoire, le séjour, l’établissement et l’éloignement des étrangers [Law of 15 December 1980 on the Access to the Territory, the Stay, the Establishment and the Removal of Foreigners] (Belgium) art 21 [tr Nawaar Hassan].
  3. 3
    Code Civil [Civil Code] (France) art 147.

In the text

The legislation provides that a person ‘born in the Kingdom or who arrived before the age of 12 and who has regularly and principally resided there since’2 may not be deported.

Quoted from the Guide, page 291
Or

1 Urheberrechtsgesetz [Copyright Law] (Switzerland) 9 October 1992, SR 231.1, art 29(2)(a) [tr author].

2 Loi du 15 Décembre 1980 sur l’accès au Territoire, le séjour, l’établissement et l’éloignement des étrangers [Law of 15 December 1980 on the Access to the Territory, the Stay, the Establishment and the Removal of Foreigners] (Belgium) art 21 [tr Nawaar Hassan].

3 Code Civil [Civil Code] (France) art 147 [tr author].

Quoted from the Guide, page 291

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 290
  • Undang-Undang Dasar Negara Republik Indonesia 1945 [Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia 1945]
  • [tr author]
  • * All translations are by the author, except where otherwise indicated.
  • Urheberrechtsgesetz [Copyright Law] (Switzerland) 9 October 1992, SR 231.1, art 29(2)(a) [tr author].
  • Loi du 15 Décembre 1980 sur l’accès au Territoire, le séjour, l’établissement et l’éloignement des étrangers [Law of 15 December 1980 on the Access to the Territory, the Stay, the Establishment and the Removal of Foreigners] (Belgium) art 21 [tr Nawaar Hassan].
  • Code Civil [Civil Code] (France) art 147 [tr author].

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.