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Quotations
Occasionally a title contains material in quotation marks. To ensure that whatever
style of citation you are using this will get properly printed, it is advisable
to use the \enquote{} macro from the csquotes package rather than
enter the quotation marks directly. (Of course, for the bl-oscola style, which
uses single quotation marks and double within single (‘Like “this” example’),
double quotation marks will do; but it’s sensible to prepare your database file
to be usable with different styles. Example 96 demonstrates this.)
Citation Commands
As the standard makes clear, ‘oscola is a footnote style: all citations appear
in footnotes’. 15 The bl-oscola package assumes you are following this approach.
The basic commands for citation are \cite and \footcite. These work as
set out in the biblatex documentation. The format for \cite is:
\cite〈[prenote]〉〈[postnote]〉{label}
The prenote is any material you want printed before the citation (such as
‘See’). The postnote is anything you want printed after it – usually the page
or pages to which you are referring. So long as it looks like a set of ‘pages’,
the package will include any label or labels that ought to be added, 16 such
as ‘para’ or ‘s’ or ‘col’, and (where possible) it is usually best to let it do that
(because it helps make sure the index is correct).
\cite{oscola} Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, OSCOLA: Oxford
Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (4th edn,
2010) 〈http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/oscola〉 (oscola)
\cite[3]{oscola} oscola, 3
\cite[See][3]{oscola} See oscola, 3
\cite[ch 1]{oscola} oscola, ch 1
The \footcite command works in just the same way, except that it puts
the whole of the citation (including the pre- and post-notes) into a fotnote.
You can also use the \cite command in a footnote, so \footcite[12]{oscola}
will usually produce the same output as \footnote{\cite[12]{oscola}.} But
the \footcite version usually leaves your source code easier to read. 17
If you prefer, you can use \autocite, which will work in practice more or
less as \footcite does. One of the best things about \autocite is that it is
quite ‘clever’ in the way that it moves punctuation and spaces to make sure
footnote references are correctly placed.
15 oscola, 3.
16 Based on the pagination field of the entry.
17 If you are using ibidstyle=uc to have capitalized ‘Ibid’ references, there is a further reason to
use it. See page 9.
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