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Pages
In most cases OSCOLA requires only the citation of the first page of an article
or case. But it is always permissible to include a full range, separated
by --. In some cases the ‘page’ is actually not a page but a case number: 14 it
should still be entered into the pages field.
Pagination
If your source is referred to by anything other than page number, it’s a good
idea to enter an appropriate pagination fields, to assist with pinpoint citations.
Common examples are as follows:
paragraph For references in the form ‘para 1’.
[] For references in the form [1] (used in cases).
article For references in the form ‘art 1’.
section For references in the form ‘s 1’.
rule For references in the form ‘r 1’.
regulation For references in the form ‘reg 1’
Slashes
It is quite common for legal citations to include slashes (/), for instance in ecj
case numbers, eu legislation numbers, statutory instrument numbers and the
like.
There are two ways you can enter these, and the choice you make matters.
If you enter them directly
2001/2312 [8]
then they will be treated as unbreakable. If you want them to be breakable,
you should use the \slash command instead:
2001\slash 2312 [9]
Think carefully about this. Obviously, breaks are bad. But not breaking can
make it impossible to justify text. My general advice is that you are ‘safe’
using a simple / where the number are short, but that for anything that is
going to result in more than about five characters of text, you are better off
using the \slash command.
Hyphenation
Another difficulty you will find with making sure you get clean linebreaks is
hyphenation. You can do two things to help. First, add explicit hyphenation
in difficult cases. Secondly, if a citation is predominantly in a non-English
language, set the hyphenation field in the entry to the relevant language.
(You should, then, pass the option hyphenation=babel to biblatex.)
14 See, eg, oscola, 18.
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