Journal articles
Note: Different units at Deakin use different referencing styles. Check your unit assessment information to find which style you are required to use.
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Last updated: 6 March 2024
Overview
For journal articles:
- Author names should be provided as they appear in the publication.
- Initials are not spaced and there are no full stops after initials.
- Capitalise the first letter of each word in titles except articles (a, an, the), conjunctions (and) and prepositions (by, for, with).
- Italicise journal titles, and place titles of articles within single quote marks.
- Both the volume and issue number should be included.
- Issue number is in round brackets immediately after the volume number.
- Provide the first page of the article.
- Pinpoint references are usually to pages.
- If an article is available in both print and online formats, cite the print version. If citing the online version, the date of retrieval is not given.
Article
One to three authors
First Author, Second Author and Third Author, 'Title of Article' (year) volume(issue) Journal Title first page of article, pinpoint.
48 Sharon Rodrick, 'Forgeries, False Attestations and Impostors: Torrens Systems Mortgages and the Fraud Exception to Indefeasibility' (2002) 7(1) Deakin Law Review 97, 106.
62 Penny Carruthers, Kate Galloway and Natalie Skead, 'Teaching Property Law in Australia in the Twenty-First Century: What We Do Now, What Should We Do in the Future?' (2012) 21(1) Australian Property Law Journal 57.
Four or more authors
Cite the first-listed author only, followed by 'et al'.
First Author et al, 'Title of Article' (year) volume(issue) Title of Journal first page of article, pinpoint.
1 Judy Allen et al, 'Privacy Protectionism and Health Information: Is there any Redress for Harms to Health?' (2013) 21(2) Journal of Law and Medicine 473, 474.
Online article
Articles appearing in journals that are only available online should, to the extent possible, be cited the same way as hard copy journal articles.
Note that:
- A date of retrieval is not required.
- A URL is not required.
Author, 'Title of Article' (year) volume(issue) Title of Journal first page of article, pinpoint.
4 Kate Lewins, 'What's the Trade Practices Act Got to Do with It? Section 74 and Towage Contracts in Australia' (2006) 13(1) eLaw Journal: Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law 58, 59.
Where it not possible to include a volume number, issue number or starting page, another identifier (such as an article number) may be used.
If the article is only online and in PDF or similar format, include the page range of the article after any article number/identifier.
Author, 'Title of Article' (year) volume(issue) Title of Journal Article number/identifier: page range of article, pinpoint.
22 Azzurra Annunziata et al, ‘European Consumers Interest Toward Nutritional Information on Wine Labelling: A Cross-Country Analysis’ (2015) 5 BIO Web of Conferences 04003: 1-5, 4.