AGLC4 Rule 7.8: Looseleaf Services

A print looseleaf service is cited by publisher, italic title, volume, and in brackets the most recent service number for the pinpointed material (or a date), followed by the pinpoint. An online service gives the retrieval date instead of volume and service. An author clearly identified by the service is placed before the publisher.

AGLC4 page 120

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 120
Publisher, Title, vol Volume Number (at Most Recent Service Number for Pinpoint or Full Date) Pinpoint.
Publisher, Title (online at Date of Retrieval) Pinpoint.

A boxed element is filled in with the source's details; everything outside a box is written exactly as shown.

Formatting

  • An identified author comes first, roman, followed by a comma, then the publisher named per rule 6.3.1 and a comma.
  • The title is italic.
  • For print, a comma, vol and the volume number follow the title, then a space and a round bracket beginning with at and the service identifier, which is written as the service labels it (for example Service 299 or Release 5), or a full date.
  • For online, the title is followed by a space and a round bracket containing online at and the retrieval date.
  • The pinpoint is to a paragraph and normally appears in square brackets after a space.
  • Where the service numbers paragraphs with the paragraph symbol, the symbol is placed directly before the number with no space and no square brackets.
  • The citation ends with a full stop.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 120
  1. 67
    Neil J Williams, LexisNexis Butterworths, Civil Procedure: Victoria, vol 1 (at Service 299) [21.01.1].
  2. 68
    Marcus Jacobs, Thomson Reuters, International Commercial Arbitration in Australia: Law and Practice, vol 1 (at Release 5) [3.230].
  3. 69
    JW Carter, LexisNexis, Carter on Contract (online at 20 February 2018) [04-001].
  4. 70
    CCH Australia, Australian Intellectual Property Commentary (online at 20 February 2018) ¶7-000.

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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.