Referencing Scarborough: OSCOLA Referencing

There are two parts to OSCOLA referencing: in-text citations and a list of references.

• You must reference in your assignments. If you do not, it is considered plagiarism. You can lose marks and may fail the assignment.

• You must reference when you use a direct quote (you must also put the quote in "quotation marks").

• you paraphrase something you have read, by putting it into your own words.

• you summarise what someone else has said about a topic and you include data, images, diagrams, etc. that you did not create yourself.

An Introduction to Legal Citation using OSCOLA