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General legal reference

Legal abbreviations

Legal abbreviations guides provide the full names of law report series, journals and other legal publications that are used in legal citations.

Abbreviations of legal publications (new window) (Monash University Law Library)

Cardiff index to legal abbreviations (new window) (Cardiff University)

Legal citation guides

A legal citation guide is a standardardised set of guidelines that allows the writer of legal discourse to refer to legal authorities and sources with enough clarity to enable the reader to find or follow those references.

Australian guide to legal citation (new window) (University of Melbourne)

Legal citation guide (new window) (Murdoch University)

Legal dictionaries

Legal dictionaries provide definitions for words and phrases used in the law.

Directory of Legal Dictionaries (new window) (Flinders University Library)

Latin legal glossary (new window)

Law.com dictionary (new window)

For more resources, see the VLA library catalogue (new window).