Essentials: footnotes and bibliography
General Rules
For guidance on citing domestic, secondary sources and international materials, refer to pages 1-35 General Rules in AGLC3.
Your footnotes should be:
- inserted in your writing immediately after your have referred to an information source (where you have presented somebody else's published idea/work)
- entered after a punctuation mark; for example, a full stop (.) but often a comma (,) or a semi-colon (;)
- presented at the bottom of each page, not at the end of the assessment task.
Make sure that you:
- start each footnote with a capital letter and finish it with a full stop
- type in the author's given name followed by the family name (note difference in the bibliography)
- given the 'pinpoint' reference to the relevant page or paragraph number p3-4
General Rules [1.1.5]-[1.1.6]
For your bibliography, you must:
- include all of the sources used, not just those cited in the footnotes
- organise your source material under the relevant centred headings as follows:
A Articles/Books/Reports
B Cases
C Legislation
D Treaties
E Other
- organise the authors by family name, comma, first name (see difference in footnote)
- present the list of research alphabetically by authors' family names OR if no authors' names can be found, organise alphabetically by the name of the organisational author OR the first word of the title
 How to insert footnotes in Word [PDF]
How to compile a bibliography [PDF]
Subsequent references
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