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SETU Carlow Harvard Referencing: OSCOLA

A sample of referencing that you can use to see how you reference in a real situation

What is OSCOLA?

OSCOLA is the referencing systems used for legal citation in the United Kingdom. In Ireland, we use the OSCOLA Ireland guide, which adapts the OSCOLA guide to suit the Irish context. There are a number of resources to help students to understand this different referencing style. 

OSCOLA is used in the following way with footnotes in the text compared to the in-text citation of Harvard referencing: 

OSCOLA referencing guide

Video on OSCOLA referencing

Taken from: DCU Library youtube channel: https://youtu.be/t_zKRJW-2wg 

Taken from: Critical Law Tips Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbV3jOvNfUI 

Some useful books

This book is available to borrow from the library which provides some guidance on using OSCOLA , more information on how to find this book is here.