Legal dictionaries, abbreviation and citation guides

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 (Monash University Law Library)
• Cardiff index to legal abbreviations (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.

• Citation guides – Australian guide to legal citation (University of Melbourne)
• Legal citation guide (Murdoch University).

Online legal dictionaries

These dictionaries provide definitions for words and phrases used in the law:

• Latin legal glossary
• Law.com dictionary.

For more resources, see the Public Law Library Catalogue.

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