CULR CITATION 1. Cases Name of the case should be in Italics. Verses should be written as v. in lower case (lc) without italics, but with a dot to indicate that it is a short form. Page number indication p should not be written in citation. Eg: 1.Bandhu Mukti Morcha v. Union of India, (1984) 3 S.C.C. 161 2. Additional District Magistrate, Jabalpur v. S.S. Shukla, A.I.R 1976 S.C.1207 3. Bharat Kumar v. State of Kerala, 1997(2) K.L.T. 287 2. Statutes Art / Sec. for Article / Section, respectively, followed by Name of the Statute including its year Eg: 1. Art. 21, Constitution of India. 2. Sec. 14 (a) (i), Copyright Act 1947. 3. Books Author s name, Book name in Italics, publishers name, place, edition and year within single bracket, and page number in lc with a dot. In the note, list the specific page numbers consulted, if any. In the bibliography, do not give any page number and do not use et al. instead give the name of all authors. a) Book with single author: Mahendra P. Singh, V.N Shulka s Constitution of India, Eastern Book Company, Lucknow (10 th edn, 1998), p.20 Paul Torremans (Ed.), Copyright Law: A Handbook of Contemporary Research, Edward Elgar, (2007) b) Book with 2 authors: William L. Landes and Richard A. Posner, The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, London (2003), p. 20
c) Book with more than 2 authors name only the first author followed by et al. Axel Gosseries et. al. (Eds.), Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice, Palgrave Macmillian, London (2008). d) Translated Work Aristotle, Politics, trans. Benjamin Jowett, Clarendon Press, London (1920), p.20 e) Book published electronically Stephen A. Merrill and William J. Raduchel (Eds.), Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy, available at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=14686edu/catalog (access on 17/4/2004) 4. Articles Author s name, title of the article within double quotes, citation of the source. In the note, list the specific page numbers consulted, if any. In the bibliography, list the page range for the whole article and name of all the authors. a) Articles, Chapters, etc. in Books John Adams, Originality in copyright: a solution to database problem?, in Paul Torremans, Copyright Law: A Handbook of Contemporary Research, Edward Elgar, (2007), pp. 1-27 David Black, The Long and Winding Road: International Norma, in Thomas Risse et. al., The Power of Human Rights, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1999), p.78 b) From Print Journals Citation should be as provided in the concerned Journal. In case the journal does not provide any citation follow- Author s name, title of the article within double quotes, name of the journal, year within square bracket, volume, page L. C. Green, The Nature Of Political Offences, Journal of the Indian Law Institute, [1965], Vol. 17:1,p. 1 c) From On-line Journal
Jennifer A. Quaid, The Assessment of Corporate Criminal Liability on the Basis of Corporate Identity: An Analysis, McGill Law Journal, [1998], Vol. 43 No.1, available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2307095 (accessed on 27/05/2016) Vikram Singh et al., Patent Database: Their Importance in Prior Art Documentation and Patent Search, Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, [2016], Vol. 21(1), p. 45, available at http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/34016/1/jipr%2021%281%29%2042-56.pdf (accessed on 27/05/2016) d) From Newspaper/ Magazine Name of author, if available, title of the article within double quotes, name of newspaper/ magazine, month and date, year, page/ URL followed by accessed on in single bracket, if online material is used Donald Trump reaches magic number to clinch GOP nomination, The Hindu, May 26, 2016, available at http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/2016-uspresidential-election-donald-trump-reaches-magic-number-to-clinch-gopnomination/article8651098.ece (accessed on 27/05/2016) John P. Ogier, Intellectual Property, finance and economic development, WIPO Magazine, Feburary, 2016, p. 6-9 5. Reports Name of the author, if identifiable, Name of the Report in Italics, name of the agency which initiated/ supported/ conducted the study, year of publication, page, URL followed by accessed on in single bracket, if online material is used Justice M. Jagannadha Rao, 185 th Report on Review of the Indian Evidence Act, Law Commission of India, 2003, available at http://lawcommissionofindia.nic.in/reports/185threport-parti.pdf (accessed on 27/05/2016) The World Health Report 2013: Research for Universal Health Coverage, World Health Organisation, 2013, p. 10, available at
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/85761/2/9789240690837_eng.pdf?ua=1 (accessed on 27/05/2016) 6. Book Review Name of the author, name of specific article, if any, within double quotes, review of citation of the book. In Bibliography give name of all the authors of the book. Madhavi Sunder, review of Intellectual property and Theories of Justice, Axel Gosseries et. al., Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2010, pp. 114-118, available at http://ejpe.org/pdf/3-1-br-6.pdf (accessed on 29/06/2016) 7. Paper Presented at Conference/ Meetings Name of the author, name of article within double quotes (paper presented at venue of presentation, place, date of event in simple bracket). In Bibliography give paper presented at venue of presentation, place and date of event without any bracket. Rachel Adelman, Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On : God s Footstool in the Aramaic Targumim and Midrashic Tradition (paper presented at the annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, Louisiana, 21 24 November, 2009). 8. Thesis or Dissertation Name of the author, Title of the thesis within double quotes (award/ type of thesis, name of academic institution, year in simple bracket), page. If taken from online source give the URL. In Bibliography give award/ type of thesis, name of academic institution, year without any bracket. Sebastian Paul, The Press Council: An Experiment in Guarding Free Speech (Ph.D. thesis, School of Legal Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, 1996), p.40, available at http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/xmlui/handle/purl/1572 (accessed on 30/06/2016) 9. Websites/ Blogs
Name of the author, Title of article in double quote, name of the blog (in case of blog), date of upload, available at URL. In bibliography only the URL (without the http:// ) needs to be give. Eleonora Rosati, Brexit and UK copyright: the Story of a Loss, The IPKat, 29 June 2016, available at http://ipkitten.blogspot.in/ (accessed on 30/06/2016) Sethuraman N R, Gold edges down as calm returns after Brexit shock, 30 June 2016, available at https://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/gold-edges-down-calm-returns- 042555997.html (accessed on 30/06/2016) General Guidelines 1. All hyperlinks should be in black and without underline. 2. No page number should be mentioned in the bibliography except for articles where the whole page range has to be mentioned. 3. No et al. should be used in the bibliography. Instead name of all authors/ editors should be mentioned 4. Accepted Notations a) Latin (all Latin terms should be in Italics) Eg: et. seq. [et sequens] and the following et. al. and others ibid in the same place (page number is same) id. [idem] the same loc. cit. [loco citato] in the same place cited op. cit. [opera citato] in the work cited supra above, over infra below b) Plural form Eg: LL. Laws LL.B. Bachelor of Laws LL.M. Master of Laws JJ. Judges
pp. Pages nn. notes ss. sections Eds. editors