Referencing Guide: AGLC - Charles Darwin University.
An AGLC bibliography should follow certain rules. Make sure to: Provide full publication details for all sources. List sources under each heading alphabetically. Invert the names of the first listed author when an author is named (i.e., give their surname first, followed by a comma and their first name).
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Posts about the AGLC referencing system, the standard legal citation system for Australian law. Find out how to cite sources with AGLC on our blog.
The Australian Guide to Legal Citation 4th edition (AGLC 4) is a numbered style, meaning in-text citations are represented by a superscript number 1, 3, 8 and the details of the citation are included in a footnote in the body of your assignment. Where a bibliography is required, it should list all the citations used and other sources that were relied upon, organised alphabetically in sections.
Here is a sample introduction from a Law essay, with annotations to indicate why the writer has included each section: Now consider the following paragraphs from the body of the same essay: The following paragraph concludes the essay by summing up the key arguments.
Completing the Torts research essay will be an important milestone, because it is likely the first legal research paper you have ever been assigned. Unlike other research papers you may have completed in the past, you are now expected to undertake legal research (cases and legislation) and become familiar with a whole new referencing system, the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC).
In this essay, I will discuss and critically analyse how the work of Giddens help us to understand the interactions between structure and agency. I will first outline and define what the terms structure and agency mean, according to both classical theorists and Anthony Giddens.