Titles 
Contributions should have a title which is both concise and descriptive. Titles to articles should be centred. Type in capitals and emphasise in bold.

Abstract 
All articles should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 150 words.

Name and Autobiographical Notes 
Contributors are requested to supply their full name in whatever convention they personally prefer, not necessarily adopting the first name followed by last name convention. Autobiographical details should appear as the first footnote of each contribution, and include the contributor’s academic and professional qualifications, institutional affiliation, and current title. Acknowledgements (if any) may also be included.

Headings 
The number of levels of headings should not normally exceed four.

  • First level headings should be centred. Type in capitals/small capitals. Precede by capitalised roman numerals, e.g., I, II, etc.

I.         FIRST LEVEL HEADING IN CAPITALS/SMALL CAPITALS

  • Second level headings should be centred. Type with initial capitals for main words only and italicise. Preceded by capitalised alphabets, e.g. A, B, etc.

                          A. Second Level Heading in Italics

  • Third level headings should be flush left. Type with initial capitals for the first word and proper names only and italicise. Precede by arabic numbering, e.g., 1, 2, etc.

                           1.       Third level heading in Italics

  • Fourth level headings should be flush left. Type with initial capitals for the first word and proper names only and italicise. Precede by alphabets in parentheses, e.g., (a), (b), etc. End with a colon and run into text.

                           (a)     Fourth level headings in Italics: [Run into text…]

References and Citations 
Citations should conform as closely as possible to the McGill Law Journal, Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, 5th ed. (Toronto: Carswell 2002). The publishers are unable to check the accuracy of references and citations and it is the contributor’s responsibility to ensure that all references and citations are correct.


Contributors may wish to refer to the General Form for a brief outline of citation style but should consult the Guide itself for details not included in the General Form.

Quotations 
Quotations should be clearly indicated and it is vital that they are accurate.

  • Where letters or words are replaced or inserted within a quotation, the replacement or inserted letters or words should be indicated in brackets "[ ]".

  • Where words, phrases or sentences are omitted within a quotation, the omission should be indicated by ellipses "…". No indication of punctuation before or after the ellipse is necessary.

  • Where the quotation will run to more than forty words it should be typed as a separate paragraph, left-indented and right-indented.
  • Double quotation marks should be inserted at the beginning and end of every quotation, but not when the entire quotation is indented or at the beginning of every new paragraph within a quotation.

  • Single quotation marks should be used at the beginning and end of quotations within quotations.


Use of Capital Letters 
Where reference is made to a specific office, organisation or body then the capital letters should be used. Where the reference is general or non-specific then the lower case letter should be used.


Abbreviations and Contractions 
Where a word or words are abbreviated or contracted, the period should be used in conjunction with all abbreviations and contractions except in the case of proper names. For example, "Company" is abbreviated to "Co.", "exempli gratia" is abbreviated to "e.g.", "free trade agreements" is abbreviated to "F.T.A.s", and "Limited" is contracted to "Ltd.", whereas the "United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation" is abbreviated to "UNESCO", the "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights" is abbreviated to "ICCPR" and the "Reciprocal Enforcement of Commonwealth Judgments Act" is abbreviated to "RECJA".


Foreign words 
Foreign words not currently absorbed into the English language should be italicised, e.g., "cestui que trust", "jus gentium",  "lex mercatoria" etc.

Book Reviews 
Reviewers should include all relevant information relating to the book reviewed. It should include the title of the book reviewed in italics, followed by the edition of the book being reviewed in parenthesis "( )" if more than one edition has been published. This should be followed by the name(s) of the author(s)/editor(s) in capitals/small capitals. The following publication information should also be included in brackets "[ ]": place of publication, name of publisher, year of publication, total number of pages inclusive of the index (separate sub-totals for the tables and main text should be provided where they are separately numbered), the type of binding (softcover/hardcover) and the price of the book. For example:

Reform and Development of Private International Law: Essays in Honour of Sir Peter North edited by james Fawcett [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xxxiii + 354 pp. Hardcover: £65]

Principles of Public International Law (6th Ed.) by Ian Brownlie [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xlii + 742 pp. Softcover: £36.99]

GENERAL FORM

Reproduced with the permission of the McGill Law Journal.

LEGISLATION

Statutes
Income Tax Act, R.S.C. 1985 (5th Supp.), c. 1, s. 18 (I)(m)(iv).

Constitutional Statutes
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Part I of the Constitution Act, 1982, being Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (U.K.), 1982, c. 11.

CASES
Large v. Statford, [1995] 3 S.C.R. 733, 128 D.L.R. (4th) 193 at 197.

Taylor v. Law Society of Prince Edward Island (1992), 101 Nfld. & P.E.I.R. 216, 97 D.L.R. (4th) 427 (P.E.I. S.C. (A.D.)).

SECONDARY MATERIALS

Books
P. W. Hogg, Constitutional Law of Canada, 4th ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 1996) at 20.

Collection of Essays
G. Garnett, "The Origins of the Crown" in J. Hudson, ed., The History of English Law: Centenary Essays of "Pollock and Maitland" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995) 171 at 189.

Journal Articles
J.H. Baker. "The Three Languages of the Common Law" (1998) 43 McGill L.J. 5 at 9.

Government Documents
Law Reform Commission of Canada, Crimes Against the Foetus (Working Paper 58) (Ottawa: Law Reform Commission of Canada. 1989).

INTERNATIONAL MATERIALS

Treaties
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 19 December 1966, 999 U.N.T.S. 171, Can. T.S. 1976 No. 47, 6 I.L.M. 368 (entered into force 23 March 1976).

UN Documents
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, GA Res. 217 (III), UN GAOR, 3d Sess., Supp. No. 13, UN Doc. A/810 (1948).

ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Electronic Database Services
Vanderburgh v. ScotiaMcLeod Inc., [1992] 6 W.W.R. 673 at 675 (Alta. Q.B.), online: QL (WWR).

Alco Dispensing Canada Ltd. v. R. 1997 CanRepNat 953. online: TAXNET (TaxPartner Main) <http://taxnet.carswell.com>.

CD-ROM
Gordon v. Goertz (1995), [1996] 2 S.C.R. 27, CD-ROM: Family Law Partner, 1998, release 2 (Toronto: Carswell, 1998).

Internet
R. v. Logan (15 December 1995), Port Hardy 9317 (B.C. Prov. Ct.), online: Electronic Frontier Canada <http://insight.dcss.mcmaster.ca/org/efc/pages/law/court/R.v.Logan.html> (last modified: 13 February 1998).
 

 

 

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