• Westlaw (choose Journals, then Journals Search)

• Lexis (choose Content, then Books and Journals)

• HeinOnline (we recommend selecting
  International & Non-U.S. Law Journals )

Find links for these here Books & Journals - Law - The Library at Leeds Beckett University

• We also recommend working through the "literature searching" materials we have placed online.

• If you still need help-please email llslibrary@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Party names (in italics) followed by the neutral citation (if applicable) a comma, the Law Report citation and a full stop.

Corr v IBC Vehicles Ltd [2008] UKHL 13, [2008] 1 AC 884.

When referring to a particular paragraph, put it in square brackets at the end of the citation.

Bunt v Tilley [2006] EWHC 407 (QB), [2006] 3 All ER 336 [15].

See more OSCOLA advice on our Law subject pages.

For cases after 2001 include the neutral citation followed by the Law Reports citation (e.g. AC, Ch, KB, etc). If there is no neutral citation, give the Law Reports citation followed by the court in brackets.

Example of a citation including a neutral citation:

Callery v Gray [2001] EWCA Civ 1117, [2001] 1 WLR 2112 [42].

J Steele, Tort Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (5th edn, OUP 2022) 32.

Remember:

·       Quotations of up to 3 lines are included in the text, within single quotation marks

·       Place longer quotations in an indented paragraph without quotation marks

·       Use an ellipsis (…) to indicate any original text you haven’t included. Use [square brackets] around any words you have inserted.

The main difference between these two systems is that the Oxford method uses footnotes to place references at the end of each page, whilst the Harvard method includes certain information within the text.

There are other slight difference (e.g. authors' names cited in footnotes as forename or initial first, followed by surname).

If you open and search a source, it will be automatically added to the list of Recently Viewed Sources

Click on Pin next to the title to add them to My Pinned Sources.

If you want to delete items from your list, click on Edit (next to the My Pinned Sources heading) and then Unpin to remove them.

• Westlaw includes the valuable search tool Legal Journals Index which allows you to search by keyword across a huge selection of journals. However not all the journal articles will be available in full text. Don't worry-many of the articles will be available within Leeds Beckett Library on a different database.

• Lexis contains the excellent legal encyclopedia "Halsburys Laws of England".

• Both databases contain different journals and law reports.

• Clicking on the "Insert" tab.

• Clicking on "Header and Footer".

• Ticking the "Footer" box.

• Choosing "apply to all".

• You can then add footnotes in the footer boxes that appear on each slide.

• You may wish to move the footer box so it appears on the left corner of each slide.

You don't usually need to cite a dictionary definition, e.g. from Oxford Dictionary of Law. It depends on how you are using the definition in your work.  If you are simply using a dictionary to check your understanding of a particular concept or word, (you are not using the words, ideas or theory of an author) you do not need to cite it.

If however (and less likely) you have a particular need in your work to cite a dictionary definition, for example, if comparing varying definitions from several dictionaries, then cite these. An example:

Jonathan Law, 'stare decisis', A Dictionary of Law (10th edn, OUP 2022).