Citation Style for Socio-Legal Studies

Footnote style

The footnote style consists of 3 elements:

1. Note identifiers
2. Footnotes
3. Bibliography or Reference List

1. Note identifiers

A small number - a note identifier - is placed above the line (superscript).
Note identifiers are placed at the end of a sentence...

...although Taylor asserted that this was not the case.²⁰

OR following punctuation marks but preceding a dash...

...although Taylor asserted that this was not the case²⁰ - notwithstanding her doubts.

If you use a long quotation (more than three lines of text), the note identifier should be placed at the end of the quotation.

2. Footnotes

Footnotes (numbered consecutively) throughout the thesis, are placed at the foot of the page to which they refer; they consist of...

• Note identifier
• Citation of source

Formatting the footnote:

1. Note identifier
   Superscript number - numbered consecutively
2. Author
   First name or initial(s) followed by surname
3. Journal article or book chapter
   In single quotation marks, with minimum capitalisation
4. Title of publication
   Italicised or underlined, with maximum capitalisation
5. Page number
   If the reference goes across a couple of pages, write (for example) pp. 3-4.
   Do not refer to all the page numbers from a source.
   [See footnotes for journal articles and legislation.]
6. Each item
   Separated with a comma; end with a full stop.

²⁰J.M. Taylor, 'The Juridical Frankenstein, or death in the hands of the state,' in The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture, ed. Austin Sarat, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999, p. 140.

Information for subsequent references

When a only one publication by an author is cited in your work, the first citation is different to subsequent citations: only the name and page number is used in the subsequent citations...

²⁰J.M. Taylor, 'The Juridical Frankenstein, or death in the hands of the state,' in The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture, ed. Austin Sarat, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999, p. 140.

²¹...

²²Taylor, p. 149.

When more than one publication by the same author is cited in your work, subsequent citations of the works include: the name, title and page number...

E.g.
²⁶A. Bedner, Administrative Courts in Indonesia: a Socio-Legal Study, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2001, p. 19.

²⁷...

²⁸A. Bedner, Towards Integrated Environmental Law in Indonesia? with Nicole Niessen (eds.), CNWS Publishers, Leiden, 2003, p. 121.

²⁹Bedner, Administrative courts in Indonesia p. 42.