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    The official Citation Style Language files, the same ones Zotero and Mendeley use, plus a dedicated AGLC4 engine.

    AGLC4 rules students get wrong

    AGLC4, Australian Guide to Legal Citation, 4th edition (2018). Used in: Law in Australia, at every law school and in most Australian law journals.

    • Every citation is a footnote; the footnote ends with a full stop (rule 1.1.4).
    • Case names are italicised; the year is in square brackets when it identifies the volume, round when the report series has volume numbers (rule 2.2).
    • Journal article titles go in single quotation marks and the journal is italicised (rule 5).
    • Pinpoints follow the starting page, separated by a comma (rule 1.1.6).
    • The bibliography is divided into articles, cases, legislation and other sources (rule 1.13).

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    Journal article

    Bibliography entry

    LeCun, Yann, Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, ‘Deep Learning’ (2015) 521(7553) Nature 436

    Footnote

    Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, ‘Deep Learning’ (2015) 521(7553) Nature 436, 437.

    Later footnotes

    LeCun, Bengio and Hinton (n 1) 437.
    Book

    Bibliography entry

    Kahneman, Daniel, Thinking, Fast and Slow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011)

    Footnote

    Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011) 20.

    Later footnotes

    Kahneman (n 1) 20.
    Chapter in an edited book

    Bibliography entry

    Tversky, Amos and Daniel Kahneman, ‘Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases’ in Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky (eds), Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (Cambridge University Press, 1982) 3

    Footnote

    Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, ‘Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases’ in Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky (eds), Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (Cambridge University Press, 1982) 3, 4.

    Later footnotes

    Tversky and Kahneman (n 1) 4.
    Web page

    Bibliography entry

    World Health Organization, ‘Depression’, World Health Organization (Web Page, 31 March 2023) <https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/depression>

    Footnote

    World Health Organization, ‘Depression’, World Health Organization (Web Page, 31 March 2023) <https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/depression>.

    Later footnotes

    World Health Organization (n 1).
    YouTube video

    Bibliography entry

    3Blue1Brown, ‘But What Is a Neural Network? | Deep Learning Chapter 1’ (YouTube, 5 October 2017) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk>

    Footnote

    3Blue1Brown, ‘But What Is a Neural Network? | Deep Learning Chapter 1’ (YouTube, 5 October 2017) 4:15 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk>.

    Later footnotes

    3Blue1Brown (n 1) 4:15.
    Podcast episode

    Bibliography entry

    ‘Amusement Park’, This American Life (Episode 443) (Podcast, WBEZ Chicago, 12 August 2011) <https://www.thisamericanlife.org/443/amusement-park>

    Footnote

    ‘Amusement Park’, This American Life (Episode 443) (Podcast, WBEZ Chicago, 12 August 2011) 12:30 <https://www.thisamericanlife.org/443/amusement-park>.

    Later footnotes

    ‘Amusement Park’ (n 1) 12:30.
    Lecture or speech

    Bibliography entry

    Pausch, Randy, ‘Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams’ (Journeys Lecture Series, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 18 September 2007) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo>

    Footnote

    Randy Pausch, ‘Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams’ (Journeys Lecture Series, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 18 September 2007) 10:05 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo>.

    Later footnotes

    Pausch (n 1) 10:05.
    Newspaper article

    Bibliography entry

    Roose, Kevin, ‘A Conversation with Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled’, The New York Times (online, 16 February 2023) <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html>

    Footnote

    Kevin Roose, ‘A Conversation with Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled’, The New York Times (online, 16 February 2023) <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html>.

    Later footnotes

    Roose (n 1).
    Magazine article

    Bibliography entry

    Carr, Nicholas, ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid?’, The Atlantic (July 2008)

    Footnote

    Nicholas Carr, ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid?’, The Atlantic (July 2008) 57.

    Later footnotes

    Carr (n 1) 57.
    Report

    Bibliography entry

    World Health Organization, World Mental Health Report: Transforming Mental Health for All (2022) <https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240049338>

    Footnote

    World Health Organization, World Mental Health Report: Transforming Mental Health for All (2022) <https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240049338>.

    Later footnotes

    World Health Organization (n 1).
    Thesis or dissertation

    Bibliography entry

    Nash, John Forbes, ‘Non-cooperative Games’ (PhD Thesis, Princeton University, 1950)

    Footnote

    John Forbes Nash, ‘Non-cooperative Games’ (PhD Thesis, Princeton University, 1950).

    Later footnotes

    Nash (n 1).
    Conference paper

    Bibliography entry

    Vaswani, Ashish et al, ‘Attention Is All You Need’ (Conference Paper, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2017)

    Footnote

    Ashish Vaswani et al, ‘Attention Is All You Need’ (Conference Paper, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2017).

    Later footnotes

    Vaswani et al (n 1).
    Dataset

    Bibliography entry

    Fisher, R. A., Iris (Dataset, UCI Machine Learning Repository, 1988)

    Footnote

    R. A. Fisher, Iris (Dataset, UCI Machine Learning Repository, 1988).

    Later footnotes

    Fisher (n 1).
    Film

    Bibliography entry

    Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2010)

    Footnote

    Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2010) 1:12:05.

    Later footnotes

    Inception (n 1) 1:12:05.
    Software or app

    Bibliography entry

    R Core Team, R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing (Software, 4.3.1, R Foundation for Statistical Computing, 2023) <https://www.R-project.org/>

    Footnote

    R Core Team, R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing (Software, 4.3.1, R Foundation for Statistical Computing, 2023) <https://www.R-project.org/>.

    Later footnotes

    R Core Team (n 1).
    ChatGPT or other AI

    Bibliography entry

    OpenAI, ChatGPT (Large language model, Mar 14 version, 14 March 2023) <https://chat.openai.com/chat>

    Footnote

    OpenAI, ChatGPT (Large language model, Mar 14 version, 14 March 2023) <https://chat.openai.com/chat>.

    Later footnotes

    OpenAI (n 1).
    Dictionary or encyclopedia entry

    Bibliography entry

    Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary (online at 28 September 2026)

    Footnote

    Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary (online at 28 September 2026) ‘Culture’.

    Later footnotes

    Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary (n 1).
    Preprint (arXiv, SSRN, bioRxiv)

    Bibliography entry

    Devlin, Jacob et al, ‘BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding’ (Preprint No arXiv:1810.04805, arXiv, 11 October 2018)

    Footnote

    Jacob Devlin et al, ‘BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding’ (Preprint No arXiv:1810.04805, arXiv, 11 October 2018).

    Later footnotes

    Devlin et al (n 1).
    Blog post

    Bibliography entry

    Karpathy, Andrej, ‘The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks’, Andrej Karpathy Blog (Blog Post, 21 May 2015) <https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/>

    Footnote

    Andrej Karpathy, ‘The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks’, Andrej Karpathy Blog (Blog Post, 21 May 2015) <https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/>.

    Later footnotes

    Karpathy (n 1).
    Court case

    Bibliography entry

    Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1

    Footnote

    Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1, 42.

    Later footnotes

    Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (n 1) 42.
    Legislation

    Bibliography entry

    Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)

    Footnote

    Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) s 6.

    Later footnotes

    Privacy Act 1988 (n 1) s 6.

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    Questions

    Which edition of AGLC4 does this follow?

    AGLC4: Australian Guide to Legal Citation, 4th edition (2018), formatted by a dedicated AGLC4 engine. It is checked against all 1,016 examples printed in the Guide: 984 match character for character, 8 differ, and 24 are passages rather than single citations, so are not compared.

    Who uses AGLC4?

    Law in Australia, at every law school and in most Australian law journals.

    Is the AGLC4 generator free?

    Yes. No account, no limit, and every export (Word, BibTeX, RIS, CSL-JSON) is included. Your list stays in your browser.

    Where do the details come from when I paste a DOI or link?

    DOIs come from Crossref and DataCite, ISBNs from Open Library and Google Books, PubMed IDs from NCBI, arXiv IDs from arXiv, YouTube links from YouTube, and web pages from the citation metadata the publisher embeds in the page (the same tags Google Scholar reads). Pages that carry no metadata are filled in as far as possible and the gaps are flagged for you.

    Can I export to Word, Zotero, EndNote or LaTeX?

    Yes. Copy the list with its italics into Word or Google Docs, download a formatted .docx, or export BibTeX for LaTeX, RIS for EndNote, Zotero and Mendeley, or CSL-JSON.

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    Add the timestamp in the pinpoint box and paste the quote: the generator formats both for your style. To find the exact wording and the time it was said, get the full transcript of the video with timestamps first.

    Citations are formatted by citeproc-js by Frank Bennett (CPAL-1.0, or AGPL-1.0), the engine behind Zotero and Mendeley, running the official Citation Style Language styles (10,863 styles, commit 2e93558) and locales (commit a89adec), used under CC BY-SA 3.0. AGLC4 citations use the LexIntellect AGLC4 engine, checked against the Guide's worked examples. Always check a citation against the manual or your institution's guide before you submit.