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General style
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In general, follow the style described by the ‘Style manual: for authors,
editors and printers’, 6th edition (AGPS style).

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Numbers
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Despite AGPS style, represent all numbers as figures, including numbers below
10 and at the beginning of sentences. The exception is ‘one’ when used in the
general sense of ‘a’ or ‘any’.

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Quotation marks and apostrophes
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Per AGPS style, use single quotation marks initially, reserving double
quotation marks for nested quotes.

Use Unicode ‘curly’ quotation marks only for quotation marks. Use the straight
apostrophe character (') for apostrophes.

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Gender-neutral language
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Prefer gender-neutral terms, such as ‘Chair’ or ‘Chairperson’, to gendered
terms such as ‘Chairman’ or ‘Chairwoman’.

When referring to a person of unknown or arbitrary gender, use ‘they’ in
preference to ‘he or she’ or similar constructions.

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Referencing
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Use the footnote (Vancouver) style of referencing. Place footnotes after any
punctuation, except a dash. If a reference applies to multiple consecutive
sentences within a paragraph, place only a single footnote at the end of those
sentences.

When defining a reference in a reference list, or the first time a source is
cited in a particular chapter, follow the format in ‘Citing medicine: the NLM
style guide for authors, editors and publishers’ (Vancouver style), with the
following modifications – except when citing legal materials:

* When the author is an organisation and the author is also the publisher, omit
  the author.

* For internet resources: Omit the type of medium. Omit ‘Available from’ before
  the URL, and always follow the URL with a full stop. Omit location/pagination.

* Italicise the titles of works, and surround the titles of parts of works with
  quotation marks.

When citing legal materials (e.g. legislation or court cases), instead follow
the ‘Australian guide to legal citation’, 4th edition (AGLC4 style).

In a footnote, when referring to a previously defined source, use the AGPS
author–date style of referencing, as in ‘Smith 2020, pp. 1–4’. Use ‘op. cit.’
if and only if referring to the entire source. Separate multiple sources using
a semicolon. Conclude the footnote with a full stop.

When referring to works other than legislation, use the abbreviations ‘p.’/
‘pp.’ (page/s), ‘¶’/‘¶¶’ (paragraph/s) and ‘§’/‘§§’ (section/s).

When referring to a range of pages, show all digits on both endpoints of the
range.

For matters as to the formatting of discursive text, follow AGLC4 style.