Legal Citation Guides

Useful online guides to legal citation and abbreviations.

Australian Guide to Legal Citation (Used by the Flinders University Law School)

Online PDF version from the Melbourne University Law Review Association [Also in

Law - Books K114 A938.2]

Medium Neutral Citation (PDF)

Flinders Law Library Helpsheet on medium neutral citation

Author-date (Harvard) referencing guide

Produced by the Flinders University Sturt Library, based on the Style manual for authors, editors and printers, 6th edn. A short version for criminology is available here.

Legal Abbreviation Guides

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations

Comprehensive index of abbreviations for legal publications from over 295 jurisdictions, including Australia. It allows you to search by either the authorised abbreviation or more commonly used abbreviations. It covers both law reports and journals.

CaseBase Abbreviations

On the CaseBase search screen, click on Abbreviations in the Related Links box to see a list of abbreviations used in Lexis Nexis AU

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