Books

• Where possible, the full first name and surname of the author of a book should be included.

• However, initials or a middle name should appear if they are commonly used to identify the author.
• Initials should be separated by a space.
• The name of the author should be followed by a comma.

• If there are two or three joint authors of a book, the names of all of the authors should be included and the names of the last two authors should be separated by 'and'.

• If there are more than three joint authors, the name of the author listed first in the book should be included and should be followed by 'et al'.

H L A Hart, ...

• Where there is one editor of a book, '(ed)' should be included after his or her name.
• Where there is more than one editor, '(eds)' should be included after the final name.
• If there are two or three editors, the names of all of the editors should be included and the names of the last two editors should be separated by 'and'.
• If there are more than three editors, the name of the editor listed first in the book should be included and should be followed by 'et al'.

• The title should be italicised and included as it appears on the title page of the book, except that:

• full stops should not be used in abbreviations, in accordance with the Punctuation rule;
• capitalisation should adhere to the Capitalisation rule;
• a subtitle may be preceded by a colon or em-dash if it is not preceded by any punctuation mark on the title page.

• The year of publication of the edition being cited should appear within parentheses.
• A multi-volume work that was published over a range of years should include the first and last year if the work is complete.
• If publication is still in progress, the first year and an en-dash should appear.

William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (first published 1765–9, 12^th ed, 1978).

• Information concerning reprints should not be provided.

• However: where there is more than one edition of a book, the edition number should be included before the date and should be separated by a comma.
• The letters in the ordinal number should appear in superscript.

• For older books, the edition may best be identified by the year of publication.
• It may also be helpful to include the year in which the book was first published.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (first published 1532, 1935 ed).

• An unnumbered revised edition should be indicated by 'revised ed' before the year of publication.
• A numbered revised edition should also include the number of the revised edition before 'revised ed'.

K D Suter, World Law and the Last Wilderness (2^nd revised ed, 1980).

• A pinpoint reference should be preceded by a space.
• If the book has numbered pararaphs, a pinpoint reference may be to a paragraph.

• Paragraph numbers should be enclosed within square brackets.

• When referring to a numbered chapter of a book in a footnote, 'chapter' should be abbreviated to 'ch'.

• If the book contains more than one volume, the number of the volume being cited should appear after the year.

• If a page number is included, the volume number and page number should be separated by a comma.

International Narcotics Control Board, Annual Report 1999 (1999) [176].

Victor Thuronyi (ed), Tax Law Design and Drafting (1998) vol 2, 495.

<Author's name>, <'Chapter title'> in <Editor's name> (ed), <Title> (<Year>) <Chapter starting page>, <Pinpoint reference>.

• If another chapter from the edited collection has already been cited, the details of the edited collection should be cited again in full.

• Subsequent references to a chapter from an edited collection should refer to the first instance in which the chapter is cited (rather than the first instance in which the edited collection is cited).

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⁴³ Christopher Layne, 'Miscalculations and Blunders Lead to War' in Ted Carpenter (ed), NATO's Empty Victory: A Postmortem on the Balkan War (2000) 11.

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⁴⁵ Kober, above n 27, 110.

⁴⁶ Layne, above n 43, 13–14.

<Name of original author>, <Title> (<Name of translator> trans, <Year> ed) <Pinpoint reference> [trans of: <Title in original language>].

• If the title of the book is not a translation from the original language, it is not necessary to include the title in the original language again.

• If desired, the year the original work was first published may be included after the title in the original language, precedced by a comma.

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Alan Sheridan trans, first published 1975, 1979 ed) 46 [trans of: Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison].

<Name of original author>, '<Title>' (<Name of translator> trans, <Year> ed) [trans of: <Original Title>] in <Name of author or editor>, <Title> (Year) <Starting page>, <Pinpoint>.

Immanuel Kant, ‘To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch’ (H B Nisbet trans, first published 1970, 1991 ed) [trans of: Zum ewigen Frieden. Ein philosophischer Entwurf] in Hans Reiss (ed), Kant: Political Writings (2nd ed, 1991) 106 (fn 67).

<Institution>, <Title>, (<Year>).