AGLC4 Rule 6.2: Books: Title

Book titles are italic and otherwise follow rule 4.2.

AGLC4 page 98

Formatting

  • The whole title, including any subtitle, is italic.
  • A colon and a space separate title and subtitle, whatever the source uses.
  • The title follows the author's comma and is followed by a space and the opening bracket of the publication details.
  • Capitalisation follows rule 1.7.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 98
  1. 4
    Jason L Pierce, Inside the Mason Court Revolution: The High Court of Australia Transformed (Carolina Academic Press, 2006).
  2. 5
    Alistair Pound and Kylie Evans, An Annotated Guide to the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities (Lawbook, 2008).
  3. 6
    Prue Vines, Law and Justice in Australia: Foundations of the Legal System (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed, 2009). [Not: … Justice in Australia — Foundations of …]

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 98
  • [Not: … Justice in Australia — Foundations of …]
    a subtitle is introduced by a colon, not by a dash

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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.