Journal Articles

• Where possible, the full first name and surname of an author of an article 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 an article, 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 article should be included, followed by 'et al'.

See AGLC r 1.13.1 for the use of titles before authors' names.

H L A Hart, ...

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

• If the journal or periodical in which the article appears is organised by volume number, the year in which the article was published should be included within parentheses.
• If the journal or periodical in which the article appears is organised by year, the year in which the article was published should be included within square brackets.

Ross Grantham and Charles Rickett, 'Property and Unjust Enrichment: Categorical Truths or Unnecessary Complexity' [1997] New Zealand Law Review 668.

Where issues within a volume of a journal or periodical are not consecutively paginated, the issue number should be included in parentheses after the volume number. Otherwise, the issue number should not be included.

NOT: Colin Howard, 'Res Judicata in the Criminal Law' (1961) 3(2) Melbourne University Law Review 101.

Stan Ross, 'Battered Wife Syndrome and the Role of Lawyers' (1998) 72(11) Law Institute Journal 39.

• The full title of the journal or periodical should appear in italics.
• Ordinarily, 'The' should not be included at the start of a journal title.

NOT: Monash U L Rev OR The Monash University Law Review

• A pinpoint reference should follow the starting page number and should be preceded by a comma and a space.
• Where the pinpoint reference is to the first page of the article, the page number should be repeated.

• When citing an article that has been published in parts, a full citation should be provided for each part.
• '(Pt #)' and a starting page number should be included in citations to each part.
• If both parts are cited together, a semi-colon should be used to separate the parts.

• Articles appearing in journals or periodicals that are only available on the internet should include the uniform resource locator ('URL') for the article within the symbols '< >'.
• The date on which the article was retrieved should be included and should be preceded by 'at'.
• If the journal or periodical uses volume or issue numbers, these should also be included.
• Pinpoint references should appear before the before the URL.
• If the article has numbered paragraphs, a pinpoint reference may be to a paragraph. Paragraph numbers should be enclosed within square brackets.

• The title should include ‘Remarks by’ if this is included on the first page of the article.

<Author>, <'Title of Article / Piece'> <(full date>) American Society of International Law <Particular Area> <URL> at <date>.

Note: The 'Particular Areas' can include, for example, the following:

• Proceedings
• Insights
• Commentary