AGLC4 Rule 7.4: Press and Media Releases
A press or media release is cited by its author, its title in quotation marks, and a bracket with the release type and any number, the releasing body and the date. The body is left out when it is the same as the author, the type is copied as the release words it (Media Release where none is stated), and any number is reproduced without full stops.
AGLC4 page 114
Format
Quoted from the Guide, page 114A boxed element is filled in with the source's details; everything outside a box is written exactly as shown.
Formatting
- The author is roman and followed by a comma.
- The title is roman in single curly quotation marks.
- Inside the bracket the release type comes first, followed by a space and any document number, with no word No between them.
- Abbreviations inside the number are kept but written without full stops.
- A comma and the releasing body follow, unless the body is the same as the author, in which case it is omitted.
- A comma and the full date close the bracket.
- The pinpoint follows the bracket after a space, and the citation ends with a full stop.
Examples
Quoted from the Guide, page 114- 45Department of Defence (Cth), ‘Highest East Timorese Honour for Army Officers’ (Media Release MSPA 172/09, 22 May 2009).
- 46ASX, ‘ASX Selects Distributed Ledger Technology to Replace CHESS’ (Media Release, 7 December 2017) 1.
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.