AGLC4 Rule 7.2.5: Theses and Dissertations
A thesis uses the degree it was submitted for as its document type and the full name of the university, without the faculty or school; for collegiate or federal universities only the university is named.
AGLC4 page 112
Formatting
- The document type is the degree and the word Thesis, for example LLM Thesis or PhD Thesis, with the degree abbreviation written without full stops.
- The university is named in full, including a leading The where it is part of the official name.
- Faculties, schools, departments and constituent colleges are not named.
- A thesis usually has no number, so the bracket reads degree thesis, comma, university, comma, year.
Examples
Quoted from the Guide, page 112- 39Antonio Kurt Esposito, ‘The History of the Torrens System of Land Registration with Special Reference to Its German Origins’ (LLM Thesis, The University of Adelaide, 2000). [Not: … School of Law, The University of Adelaide …]
- 40Jonathan G Ercanbrack, ‘The Law of Islamic Finance in the United Kingdom: Legal Pluralism and Financial Competition’ (PhD Thesis, University of London, 2011). [Not: … School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London …]
Not
Quoted from the Guide, page 112- [Not: … School of Law, The University of Adelaide …]the school is not included
- [Not: … School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London …]a constituent college of a federal university is not included
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.