AGLC4 Rule 7.11.4: Unsigned and Untitled Articles and Editorials

An unsigned article has no author; an editorial takes the word Editorial as its author; an untitled article takes a description of the item instead of a title, and that description is not quoted.

AGLC4 page 125

Formatting

  • An unsigned article opens directly with its curly quoted title.
  • An editorial begins with the roman word Editorial, a comma, then the title.
  • An untitled piece uses a roman description, such as Letter to the Editor, without quotation marks, followed by a comma.
  • Sections, newspaper name, bracket and pinpoint are otherwise as in rule 7.11.1.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 125
  1. 90
    ‘Fury at WA Council Plan’, The Australian Financial Review (Sydney, 1 May 2006) 5.
  2. 91
    Editorial, ‘Medicare by Name, No Longer by Nature’, News, The Age (Melbourne, 12 March 2004) 12.
  3. 92
    Rose Healy, Letter to the Editor, The Herald Sun (Melbourne, 10 June 2002) 16.

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.