Note:
Tertiary materials, such as legal dictionaries, should not be quoted in legal writing at university level.
Therefore, legal dictionaries should not appear in footnotes.
Legal dictionaries can be included in a Bibliography as a source used to inform on a topic.
• Include retrieval date for online services
• Use single quotation marks around entry titles (unitalicised)
• Include number of relevant definition preceded by 'def' if there are multiple definitions
• Indicate which entry is being referred to, if multiple entries for the same word, by using the abbreviation used in the dictionary (eg 'adj' or n1')
• Use superscript if a number is required
Standard format for footnote
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Dictionary - print:
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Dictionary Title , ( Edition Number ed, Publication Year ) 'Entry Title' (def Definition Number ). |
Standard format for bibliography
Dictionary - online:
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Dictionary Title (online at Date of Retrieval ) |
Dictionary - print:
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Dictionary Title , ( Edition Number ed, Year of Publication ) |
Legal Encyclopaedia - online
1 Macquarie Dictionary (online at 20 February 2018) 'punctilious'.
2 Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary (online at 20 February 2018) 'default judgment' (def 1).
Legal Encyclopaedia - print
3 Macquarie Dictionary (5th ed, 2009) 'demise' (def 4).
4 Chambers Dictionary (13th ed, 2014) 'éclair'.
5 Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed, 1989) 'school' (v2, def 2b).