AGLC4 Rule 5.5: Journal

The journal's full name is given in italics after the year, volume and issue. It is never abbreviated and is taken from the journal's title page, except that an initial The is dropped and a subtitle is omitted where that causes no ambiguity.

AGLC4 page 93

Formatting

  • The journal name is italic.
  • It follows the volume and issue, or the year and issue, after a space with no comma.
  • The name is given in full and never abbreviated.
  • An initial The is omitted.
  • A subtitle of the journal is omitted unless it is needed to avoid ambiguity.
  • An ampersand in the journal's name is written as and.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 93
  1. 9
    … Australian Law Journal … [Not: … The Australian Law Journal … nor … ALJ … nor … Australian L J …]
  2. 10
    … Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities … [Not: … Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities …]
  3. 11
    … Copyright Reporter … [Not: … Copyright Reporter: Journal of the Copyright Society of Australia …]

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 93
  • [Not: … The Australian Law Journal … nor … ALJ … nor … Australian L J …]
    the leading The is dropped and the name is never abbreviated
  • [Not: … Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities …]
    the ampersand is written as and
  • [Not: … Copyright Reporter: Journal of the Copyright Society of Australia …]
    the journal's subtitle is left out because the name is unambiguous without it

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.