The Australian Guide to Legal Citation ('AGLC') is a legal referencing style.
The AGLC style uses footnotes in the text of your work and may include a bibliography at the end as a list of all the sources you have used.
Download a free online copy of the AGLC here:
A downloadable guide with examples from this page.
Use these Word template to help you with formatting; the template includes heading levels and formatted bibliography headings.
See the sample essay for an example of what footnoting the bibliography should look like in the AGLC Style.
Use the AGLC Checklist to help you check your referencing before you submit.
| Source Type | Rule & Example |
| Case |
Rule 2, page 39 R v Tang (2008) 237 CLR 1 |
| Legislation |
Rule 3, page 67 Criminal Code Act 1983 (NT) |
| Journal Article |
Rule 5, page 91 Footnote example: Alex Steel, 'Contact Cheating: Will Students Pay for Serious Criminal Consequences?' (2007) 42(2) Alternative Law Journal 123. Bibliography example: Steel, Alex, 'Contact Cheating: Will Students Pay for Serious Criminal Consequences?' (2007) 42(2) Alternative Law Journal 123 |
| Book |
Rule 6, page 106 Footnote example: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Books, 2011).
Bibliography example: Orwell, George, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Books, 2011). |
| Report |
Rule 7, page 206 Footnote example: Community Law Australia, Unaffordable and Out of Research: The Problem of Access of the Australian Legal System (Report, July 2012) Bibliography example: Community Law Australia, Unaffordable and Out of Research: The Problem of Access of the Australian Legal System (Report, July 2012) |
| Internet Material |
Rule 7.15, page 130 Footnote example: Maria O'Sullivan, 'A Robot Breaks the Finder of a 7-Year-Old: A Lesson in the Need for Stronger Regulation of Artificial Intelligence', The Conversation (Web Page, 27 July 2022) <https://theconversation.com/a-robot-breaks-the-finger-of-a-7-year-old-a-lesson-in-the-need-for-stronger-regulation-of-artificial-intelligence-187612>. Bibliography example:
O'Sullivan, Maria, 'A Robot Breaks the Finder of a 7-Year-Old: A Lesson in the Need for Stronger Regulation of Artificial Intelligence', The Conversation (Web Page, 27 July 2022) <https://theconversation.com/a-robot-breaks-the-finger-of-a-7-year-old-a-lesson-in-the-need-for-stronger-regulation-of-artificial-intelligence-187612> |
Find out how to quote, repeat a citation, make a short title, pinpoint inside a source, date, time and number formats, heading levels, and sources referring to other sources.
Quick Example
Kelly J explained, 'correct referencing is essential to the ability of the courts and academic institutions to test arguments and verify sources'.1
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1 Re Onyeledo [2015] NTSC 60, [39].
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