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OSCOLA Referencing Style: A Comprehensive Guide, Study notes of Human Rights

Coventry CollegeHuman Rights

An introduction to the OSCOLA referencing style, which is used for citing legal authorities. It covers various aspects of OSCOLA, including pinpointing specific pages, author names, short and long quotations, and referencing different types of sources such as cases, legislation, books, and journal articles. The document also includes examples and instructions for creating footnotes and bibliography entries.

What you will learn

  • What is the OSCOLA referencing style and when is it used?
  • How do you pinpoint a specific page in a source using OSCOLA?
  • What is the format for author names in OSCOLA footnotes and bibliography entries?

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OSCOLA REFERENCING
Introduction to Oscola
• OSCOLA is a numeric referencing style published by the The Oxford Standard for
Citation of Legal Authorities.
• It uses footnotes for in-text citations which are identified by a superscript number,
usually at the end of a sentence after the full stop.
Example:
Cowan contends that there has been an erosion of human rights.
• The numbers in the text are then linked to the footnotes.
Note: The first time you cite a source, full details are given. Additional references to the
same source are then provided in abbreviated form.
Pinpointing
Pinpointing is when you wish to cite a specific page within a source. You include this page
number at the end of the reference.
Example:
To pinpoint page 46 of a report that runs from pages 25-57
R v Crawford [2011] EWCA Crim 25, 46
Further references to the same source
• The first time you cite a source, full details should be given.
• Subsequent references to the same source can then be abbreviated by briefly
identifying the source and providing a cross-reference in brackets to the footnote
which contains the full citation.
• ibid. means “in the same place”. If two or more consecutive references are from the
same source, then they are cited using ibid.
Example:
1 Robert Stevens, Torts and Rights (OUP 2007)
...
6 Stevens (n 1) 110.
7 ibid 271-78.
Author names
In footnotes the author name(s) should be in the format FORENAME then SURNAME.
Example:
Tim Crawford, ...
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OSCOLA REFERENCING

Introduction to Oscola

  • OSCOLA is a numeric referencing style published by the The Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities.
  • It uses footnotes for in-text citations which are identified by a superscript number, usually at the end of a sentence after the full stop. Example: Cowan contends that there has been an erosion of human rights.
  • The numbers in the text are then linked to the footnotes. Note: The first time you cite a source, full details are given. Additional references to the same source are then provided in abbreviated form.

Pinpointing

Pinpointing is when you wish to cite a specific page within a source. You include this page number at the end of the reference.

Example: To pinpoint page 46 of a report that runs from pages 25- R v Crawford [2011] EWCA Crim 25, 46

Further references to the same source

  • The first time you cite a source, full details should be given.
  • Subsequent references to the same source can then be abbreviated by briefly identifying the source and providing a cross-reference in brackets to the footnote which contains the full citation.
  • ibid. means “in the same place”. If two or more consecutive references are from the same source, then they are cited using ibid.

Example: (^1) Robert Stevens, Torts and Rights (OUP 2007)

... (^6) Stevens (n 1) 110. (^7) ibid 271-78.

Author names

In footnotes the author name(s) should be in the format FORENAME then SURNAME. Example: Tim Crawford, ...

In the bibliography this is reversed: SURNAME then INITIAL(S). Example: Crawford T, ...

In footnotes write the first author’s name followed by “and others”. Example: Samuel Topping and others, ...

In the bibliography list all of the authors. Example: Topping S, Beck D and Wilson P, ...

More than 3 authors

In footnotes write the first author’s name followed by “and others”. Example: Samuel Toppoing and others, …

In the bibliography list all of the authors. Example: Toppoing S, Beck D, and Wilson P, …

Short quotation

Up to three lines:

  • Include as part of the main text
  • Use single quotation marks

Example: Charles Rennie Mackintosh is one of the most influential Scottish architects. Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art ‘heralded the birth of a new style in 20th century European Architecture’.^1

Long quotations

Greater than 3 lines:

  • start on separate line
  • indent
  • no quotation marks
  • if you refer to a quotation within a quotation then use double quotation marks use [...] to signify omission of words from the quotation Example: Charles Dickens’ novel Bleak House opens with the following description to set the scene for his story: London [...] Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the water had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be
  • Page(s) Example: JH Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History (4 th^ edn, Butterworths, London 2002) 419-

Chapter in a book

Order

  • Author initial(s) or firstname followed by surname
  • Title of chapter in single quotation marks
  • In
  • Editor(s) (eds)
  • Book title in italics
  • (Edition, Publisher, Place Year) in round brackets Example: I Brownlie, ‘The Relation of Law and Power’ in Bin Cheng and ED Brown (eds), Contemporary Problems in International Law: Essays in Honour of Georg Schwarzenberger on his Eightieth Birthday (Stevens and Sons, London 1988).

Journal article

  • Order
  • Author initial(s) or firstname followed by surname
  • Title of article in single quotation marks
  • [Year] in square brackets
  • Acronym for journal title
  • First page
  • Pinpointed page Example: Paul Craig, ‘Constitutional Foundations, the Rule of Law and Supremacy’ [2003] PL 92, 96

Electronic journal article

Order

  • Author initial(s) or firstname followed by surname
  • Title of article in single quotation marks
  • [Year] in square brackets
  • Volume number issue (series)
  • Acronym for journal title
  • Date accessed Example: Graham Greenleaf, ‘The Global Development of Free Access to Legal Information’ [2010] 1 (1) EJLT http://ejlt.org//article/view/17 accessed 27 July 2010

Conference paper

Order

  • Author initial(s) or firstname followed by surname
  • Title of paper in single quotation marks
  • (Conference Name, Place, Date) in round brackets Example: Ben McFarlane and Donal Nolan, ‘Remedying Reliance: The Future Development of Promissory and Propriety Estoppel in English Law’ (Obligations III Conference, Brisbane, July 2006).

Newspaper article

Order

  • Author initial(s) or firstname followed by surname
  • Title of article in single quotation marks
  • Title of newspaper in italics
  • (Place, Date) in round brackets
  • Page number Example: Simon Cunningham, ‘Custody Death Raises Questions’ The Irish News (Belfast, 15 June 2011) 18

Website

Order

  • Author initial(s) or firstname followed by surname
  • Title in single quotation marks
  • Type of document and Year
  • Date accessed Example: Shami Chakrabarti, ‘The End of Innocence’ (Lecture at the Centre for Public Law in Cambridge 2004) http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/resources/articles accessed 16 August 2011

Bibliography

Format

  • The bibliography may be divided into sections, for example legislation, cases, books, journal articles, websites etc.
  • Each section should be arranged in alphabetical order by author’s surname.
  • The surname comes first, followed by initial(s).
  • No comma is required until after the final inital.
  • Note that forenames are not used.