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AGLC4 Referencing

Instructions and links for Referencing support

Legal encyclopaedias and dictionaries

The full AGLC4 rule for legal encyclopaedias can be found at Rule 7.7.

Elements (if viewed online)

Publisher,	*Title*	(online at Date)	Title number	Name of title	Chapter number	Name of chapter	[Paragraph]
Lawbook,	The Laws of Australia	(online at 1 September 2014)	15	Equity,	'15.1	History and Nature of Equity'	[15.1.150]

Name of the publisher
Title — italicised
Date — the date accessed, preceded by 'online at'
Title number
Name of title
Chapter number
Name of chapter
Paragraph — should be enclosed in square brackets.

Example

LexisNexis, Halsbury's Laws of Australia (online at 12 March 2018) 25 Arbitration, '2 The Arbitration Agreement' [25-50].

Dictionaries

The full AGLC4 rule for legal dictionaries can be found at Rule 7.6.

Elements (if viewed online)

*Dictionary title*	(online at Date)	'Entry title'	Definition number
Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary	(online at 12 February 2020)	'citizen'	(def 1).

Dictionary title — italicised
Date — the date accessed, preceded by 'online at'
Entry name — in single quotation marks
Definition number

Example

Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary (online at 12 February 2020) 'citizen' (def 1).