AGLC4 Rule 6.3.2: Edition Number

Where a book exists in several editions and the cited book states its edition number, that number follows the publisher as an ordinal with a superscript suffix, then ed and a comma.

AGLC4 page 100

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 100
Ordinal Edition Number ed,

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

Formatting

  • The edition follows the publisher's comma.
  • The edition number is an Arabic ordinal whose suffix is superscript.
  • The abbreviation ed follows after a space, without a full stop.
  • A comma follows ed, before the year.
  • The edition is given only where the book has more than one edition and the cited book states its number.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 100
  1. 14
    RP Austin and IM Ramsay, Ford’s Principles of Corporations Law (LexisNexis Butterworths, 15th ed, 2013).
  2. 15
    David Bamford and Mark Rankin, Principles of Civil Litigation (Lawbook, 2nd ed, 2014).

See also

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