Journal Articles
Citing articles, notes and symposia under Chapter 5.
The standard form
A journal article cites the author, the article title in single quotation marks, the year, the volume and issue, the journal name in italics, the starting page, and then any pinpoint after a comma. Chapter 5 governs articles.
The starting page is not a pinpoint. It is part of the citation and stays in the bibliography. The pinpoint is the extra number after the comma.
Year and volume brackets
The same bracket logic as law reports applies. If the journal numbers its volumes, the year sits in round brackets before the volume. If the journal is organised by year alone, the year sits in square brackets and does the volume’s job.
Authors
Rule 4.1 governs authors for every secondary source. Give names exactly as published. Two or three authors are all named, joined with and. Four or more collapse to the first author followed by et al. An organisation can be the author, and rule 4.1.4 covers bodies as authors.
Special article types
Chapter 5 also handles the edge cases. Symposia are cited under rule 5.9. Case notes and book reviews take a descriptive addition after the title. If an article exists only online with no page numbers, pinpoint by paragraph and add the URL under the general URL rules.
Last reviewed: 2026-07-16· This guide is formatting assistance, not the rules themselves — confirm anything load-bearing in the official AGLC4.