AGLC4 Rule 5.4: Volume and Issue

Give both the volume and the issue number, the issue in round brackets straight after the volume. For year-organised journals, the bracketed issue follows the year after a space. A non-numeric issue marker, such as a season or month, is bracketed after a space, and combined issues are shown as a span inside one bracket.

AGLC4 page 92

Formatting

  • The volume number follows the year after a space.
  • The issue number follows the volume in round brackets with no space between them.
  • For a year-organised journal, the issue number in round brackets follows the square-bracketed year after a space.
  • A season, month or other non-numeric issue marker goes in round brackets after the volume or year, separated from it by a space.
  • Where one bound edition contains several issues, they are shown as a span joined by an en dash inside a single pair of round brackets.
  • The issue number is not omitted where the journal has one.
  • For journals published very often or indexed by full date, a newspaper style citation under rule 7.11 may be more suitable.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 92
  1. 5
    Andrew Edgar, ‘Administrative Regulation-Making: Contrasting Parliamentary and Deliberative Legitimacy’ (2017) 40(3) Melbourne University Law Review 738, 747–9. [Not: … (2017) 40 Melbourne …]
  2. 6
    AP Simester, ‘Accessory Liability and Common Unlawful Purposes’ (2017) 133 (January) Law Quarterly Review 73.
  3. 7
    Dawn Oliver, ‘Is the Ultra Vires Rule the Basis of Judicial Review?’ [1987] (Winter) Public Law 543.
  4. 8
    James Boyle, ‘The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain’ (2003) 66(1–2) Law and Contemporary Problems 33, 37. [Not: … (2003) 66(1)–(2) …]

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 92
  • [Not: … (2017) 40 Melbourne …]
    the issue number must be given after the volume
  • [Not: … (2003) 66(1)–(2) …]
    combined issues share a single pair of brackets

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 92
  • ‘40(1)’
  • ‘[2000] (1)’
  • ‘31 (Winter)’
  • ‘[1982] (Summer)’
  • ‘21(2–3)’
  • ‘[1957] (5–6)’

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.