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Finding, Referencing and Evaluating legal materials: OSCOLA

Law Referencing Guide

The Law School at De Montfort University has produced a guide that shows you the correct way to reference using the footnote system based on OSCOLA (The Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities)

To answer the referencing questions in this guide using the DMU footnote style, open a Word document, pretend to write some text amd insert footnotes and Bibliography!  

OSCOLA basic principles

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OSCOLA peculiarities

A few points to note about footnotes;

  • Footnotes are numbered continuously through your document, starting at 1.
  • If you mention a source more than once, simply carry on with the next number i.e. do not repeat the number you have used the first time.
  • In footnotes, author’s first name or initial(s) precede their surname.

A few points to note about the bibliography;

  • The bibliography is arranged in alphabetical order by author's surname
  • Your bibliography does not include Cases nor Legislation.