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OSCOLA Referencing quick guide
This is a quick guide to citing and referencing using the Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities
(OSCOLA) (4th edition) referencing system. For more detailed examples go to Cite Them Right Online, or see the official
guidance on the University of Oxford’s OSCOLA page.
Your referencing includes three stages:
— a numbered citation in the text of your assignment
— a footnote corresponding to the numbered citation
— a reference list at the end of your assignment
Referencing in your text
When you summarise, refer to, or quote from an author’s work, or from a legal source such as a case or piece of
legislation, you need to acknowledge your source in the text. OSCOLA uses numbering for each source cited in the text
which link to footnotes at the bottom of each page.
In-text referencing examples:
One author/editor (up to 3) Alder and Syrett argue that … 1 Four or more authors/editors Finch and others argue that … 5 Organisation Research by Liberty states that … 6 Case (in italics) … as outlined in Patterson v Munk.^9 Legislation … as set out in the Human Rights Act 1998.^10
Footnote examples – primary sources of law
Cases
Winterburn v Bennett [2016] EWCA Civ 482, [2017] 1 WLR 646. R v Gold [1988] AC 1063 (HL).
Statutes and Statutory Instruments
Settled Land Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict c 36). Human Rights Act 1998. Teachers’ Pension Scheme Regulations 2014, SI 2014/512.
EU legislation and cases
Consolidated Version of the Treaty on European Union [2016] OJ C202/13. Regulation (EU) 2018/831 amending Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 on plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food [2018] OJ L140/35. Case 53/81 Levin v Staatssecretaris van Justitie EU:C:1982:105, [1982] ECR 1035.
European Court of Human Rights cases
Copland v UK (2007) 45 EHRR 37. Robins v UK [1997] ECHR 22410/93. Evans v UK App no 18770/18 (ECtHR, 23 April 2018).
© August 2019 www.yorksj.ac.uk/library | [email protected] | 01904 876696 Footnote examples – secondary sources of law
Books
Keith Abbott, Norman Pendlebury and Kevin Wardman, Business Law (9th^ edn, Cengage Learning EMEA 2013).
Book chapters/sections (in an edited book)
Helen Allan, ‘Justice and Fairness’ in Ann Gallagher and Sue Hodge (eds), Ethics, Law and Professional Issues (Palgrave Macmillan 2012 ).
Journal articles
Patricia Londono, ‘Should Sex Offence Suspects be Granted Anonymity?’ (2017) 167(7760) New Law Journal 13. David Campbell, ‘Decency, Disobedience and Democracy in Immigration Law’ [2018] PL 413.
Newspaper articles
Kaya Burgess, ‘Law Chief Warns Google for Identifying Victims of Rape’ The Times (London, 23 May 2018) 2. Mark Sweeney, ‘Marriott to be fined nearly £100m over GDPR breach’ The Guardian (London, 9 Jul 2019 ) <www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/09/marriott-fined-over-gdpr-breach-ico> accessed 9 July 2019.
Government command papers
Ministry of Justice, Punishment and Reform: Effective Community Sentences (Cm 8334, 2012). Department for Constitutional Affairs, The future of legal services: putting consumers first (Cm 6679 , 2005).
Web pages
Legal Action Group, ‘Number of Employment Tribunal Cases Continues to Rise’ ( Legal Action Group , March 2018) <www.lag.org.uk/article/204701/number-of-employment-tribunal-cases-continues-to-rise> accessed 29 May 2019. Reference list
The reference list at the end of your assignment should be arranged as follows:
— Table of Cases (in alphabetical order of first named party, not italicised)
— Table of Legislation (in alphabetical order of first word in title)
— Bibliography (all secondary sources used – in alphabetical order by first author’s last name, followed by their initials eg
Helen Allan would be Allan, H.)
Pinpointing
If you use a direct quote or reference a specific paragraph of a case judgement, part of a statute or a page in a report, book
or journal article you include this information at the end of the footnote.
Pinpointing examples:
Sumner v Colborne [2018] EWCA Civ 1006, [2019] QB 430 [21]-[23]. Consumer Protection Act 1987, s 4(1)(c). Emily Finch and Stefan Fafinski, Legal Skills (6th^ edn, OUP 2017) 266. Kate Malleson, ‘Equality Law and the Protected Characteristics’ (2018) 81(4) MLR 598, 602.
