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General style
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In general, follow the style described by the ‘Style manual: for authors,
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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
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10 and at the beginning of sentences. The exception is ‘one’ when used in the
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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
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quotation marks for nested quotes.
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Use Unicode ‘curly’ quotation marks only for quotation marks. Use the straight
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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
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terms such as ‘Chairman’ or ‘Chairwoman’.
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When referring to a person of unknown or arbitrary gender, use ‘they’ in
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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
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punctuation, except a dash. If a reference applies to multiple consecutive
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sentences within a paragraph, place only a single footnote at the end of those
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sentences.
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When defining a reference in a reference list, or the first time a source is
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cited in a particular chapter, follow the format in ‘Citing medicine: the NLM
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style guide for authors, editors and publishers’ (Vancouver style), with the
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following modifications – except when citing legal materials:
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* When the author is an organisation and the author is also the publisher, omit
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the author.
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* For internet resources: Omit the type of medium. Omit ‘Available from’ before
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the URL, and always follow the URL with a full stop. Omit location/pagination.
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* Italicise the titles of works, and surround the titles of parts of works with
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quotation marks.
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When citing legal materials (e.g. legislation or court cases), instead follow
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the ‘Australian guide to legal citation’, 4th edition (AGLC4 style).
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In a footnote, when referring to a previously defined source, use the AGPS
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author–date style of referencing, as in ‘Smith 2020, pp. 1–4’. Use ‘op. cit.’
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if and only if referring to the entire source. Separate multiple sources using
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a semicolon. Conclude the footnote with a full stop.
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When referring to works other than legislation, use the abbreviations ‘p.’/
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‘pp.’ (page/s), ‘¶’/‘¶¶’ (paragraph/s) and ‘§’/‘§§’ (section/s).
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When referring to a range of pages, show all digits on both endpoints of the
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range.
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For matters as to the formatting of discursive text, follow AGLC4 style.
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