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keywords Must include eu.
number Enter the case number (or numbers) in the number
field. Do not include ‘Case’ or ‘Joined Cases’ in the
number field.
type If your case is an ordinary one (ie, ‘Case’ or ‘Joined
Cases’) you need enter nothing here. If you need to
specify something unusual (like Opinion) to precede
the case number, use the type field.
options It is not necessary to specify year-essential=true
for decision in the European Court Reports (ECR) –
though it will do no harm to do so.
reporter If the case is not yet reported in the ECR (or some
other full report) you can include a citation to the
Official Journal. Follow the advice set out in relation
to Commission decisions, below.
pagination You can, if you like, specify paragraph; but if nothing
is entered, paragraph will be assumed.
Because, unless type is set, bl-oscola needs to analyse the case number
in order to decide whether to print ‘Case’ or ‘Joined Cases’, the format of
the number is important. If the number contains a comma, an en-dash (--),
or the word ‘and’, then the package knows that there is more than one case.
However, this does mean that you can’t use the en-dash in the case number,
because if the package sees C--2/98 it will think it is looking at more than
one case. There are two things you could do. Either use a single hypen in
case numbers (C-2/98) or use a special command \textendash, which will
print an en-dash but will not lead the package to make mistakes about the
number of cases: C\textendash/98. As to the choice, oscola itself seems to
use an en-dash, which looks typographically best to me; but the ECJ and
Community reports themselves use a hyphen, so it could certainly be argued
that a hyphen is correct, and it’s simpler. Obviously, be consistent.
Examples
Examples 33 to 36 show the basic format for a variety of simple reported
cases.
@jurisdiction{adbhu,
}
keywords = {eu},
title = {Procureur de la R{\’e}publique v ADBHU},
shorttitle = {ADBHU},
number = {240/83},
institution = {ECJ},
date = {1985},
journaltitle = {ECR},
pages = {531},
European Union Cases 31
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