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AGLC Referencing Guide

This guide provides basic information on footnotes and bibliographies using the AGLC (4th edition).

Secondary Sources - Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias

Material Type Footnote Example Bibliography Example

Legal Dictionary: Print

Rule 7.6 & 6.3.2

1 Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary (Sweet and Maxwell, 11th ed, 2009) 'demise'. Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary (Sweet and Maxwell, 11th ed, 2009)

Legal Dictionary: Online

Rule 7.6

Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary (online at 14 February 2017) 'comity'.

Note: Include the date last updated or date accessed. The title of the dictionary entry is at the end in quotation marks.

Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary (online at 14 February 2017)
Macquarie Dictionary: Online

1 Macquarie Dictionary (online at 24 April 2015) 'specific'.

Note: Include the date last updated or date accessed. The title of the dictionary entry is at the end in quotation marks.

Macquarie Dictionary (online at 24 April 2015)

Encyclopaedias: Print or Online

Rule 7.7

1 Thomson Reuters, The Laws of Australia (at 23 May 2013) 21 Human Rights, '4 Civil and Political Rights' [21.4.180].

Note: Where a legal encyclopaedia is viewed online, the volume number is omitted. If the date of last update is indicated, this should be included in the footnote. Otherwise, the date of retrieval should be listed. Rule 7.7

Thomson Reuters, The Laws of Australia (at 23 May 2013) 21 Human Rights, '4 Civil and Political Rights'
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