AGLC4 Rule 5.2: Journal Articles: Title

Article titles follow rule 4.2 and are placed in single quotation marks. They are roman, apart from words the source itself italicises.

AGLC4 page 91

Formatting

  • The title is enclosed in single quotation marks.
  • The title is roman; only words italic in the source, such as case names, are italicised.
  • A comma follows the author before the title.
  • No punctuation follows the title; a space separates the closing quotation mark from the year.
  • A subtitle follows a colon and a space, under rule 4.2.
  • Quotation marks within the title become double quotation marks.

Example

Quoted from the Guide, page 91
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    Jani McCutcheon, ‘Curing the Authorless Void: Protecting Computer-Generated Works following IceTV and Phone Directories’ (2013) 37(1) Melbourne University Law Review 46.

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.