Help! I am a law librarian! Part 1 - OSCOLA

For the time being, covering a vacancy, I am a law librarian in addition to the day job.  So, an interim law librarian, or, if you prefer health terminology, a locum.So I am trying to get to grips with a new subject area.   It, like medicine and health (and I suspect everything actually), has its own conventions and resources.   The first thing is....... OSCOLAThis has been the subject of all enquiries so far, being the referencing style used by our Law School (and many others).   I ' ve been asked about referencing US state law, secondary referencing, and referencing websites, and also to check a bibliography.   We don ' t do proof reading, but we do have a look and offer general advice if necessary.  Doing that was a useful exercise for me, actually, as a newcomer to OSCOLA.  I hope it was for the enquirer too.I have had the occasional enquiry in the past from health students about how to reference UK  legal materials.   Harvard can cope - there are examples in our guide (and in Cite Them Right).  Our guide to Vancouver said nothing, and what we could find in the longer guides related to US law, so for our own guide to Vancouver, my law librarian colleague and I devised examples.   OSCOLA is a footnote style, something I have been able to ignore until now - I have never encountered a footnote style in health.Where have I found help relating to OSCOLA? &nbs...
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