AGLC4 Rule 6.3.4: Publication Year

The year of the edition cited follows the publisher and any edition; the year of first publication is never given. A completed multi-volume work published over several years shows its first and last years as a span, and one still being published shows its first year followed by an en dash.

AGLC4 page 101

Formatting

  • The year is the last item inside the publication bracket, preceded by a comma.
  • It is the year of the edition cited, not of first publication.
  • No first published statement is added.
  • A completed multi-volume work published over several years shows the first and final years joined by an en dash.
  • A multi-volume work still in progress shows its first year followed by an en dash and nothing more before the closing bracket.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 101
  1. 18
    David Pannick, Judicial Review of the Death Penalty (Duckworth, 1982).
  2. 19
    Jonathan I Charney, Lewis M Alexander and Robert W Smith (eds), International Maritime Boundaries (Martinus Nijhoff, 1993–2002).
  3. 20
    Jeremy Bentham, Rationale of Judicial Evidence (Garland Publishing, 1978) vol 1.
  4. 21
    Pamela Andre (ed), Documents on Australian Foreign Policy 1937–49 (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 1975–) vol 16, 159.
  5. 22
    Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Clarendon Press, 1909). [Not: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Clarendon Press, first published 1651, 1909 ed).]

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 101
  • [Not: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Clarendon Press, first published 1651, 1909 ed).]
    only the year of the edition cited is given, without the original publication date

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.