AGLC4 Rule 7.14.3: Television Series
The series title is italicised; an untitled episode is identified as Episode and its number, or by season and episode where numbering restarts each season. A whole series is cited without any episode, using the production details of the first episode.
AGLC4 page 128
Format
Quoted from the Guide, page 128A boxed element is filled in with the source's details; everything outside a box is written exactly as shown.
Formatting
- An untitled episode is written in single curly quotation marks as Episode and its number, or as Season, its number, a comma, Episode and its number.
- A titled episode keeps its own title in single curly quotation marks, followed by a comma.
- The series title is italic.
- A non-standard version (for example Extended Version) opens the bracket, followed by a comma.
- A whole series is cited from the italic series title, with no season or episode, and the first episode's production details.
- A time pinpoint and a URL may follow the bracket.
Examples
Quoted from the Guide, page 128- 101‘The Paradise Papers’, Four Corners (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2017) 0:40:00–0:45:00 <http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/the-paradise-papers/9124930>.
- 102‘Indefensible’, Making A Murderer (Netflix, 2015).
- 103‘Season 9, Episode 10’, Gruen (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2017).
- 104‘Pilot’, Suits (Extended Version, Open 4 Business Productions, 2011) 0:14:53.
- 105The West Wing (John Wells Productions, 1999).
See also
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