4.1 The Citation Style (the Uniform Manual)

The prescribed text: the reading material's own — Mukhia, Bal Bahadur (Prof. Dr.) and Parajuli, D.N. (Dr.), Manual of Uniform Citation Style for Legal Research (1st edn., Kathmandu: Nepal Law Campus, 2020) — the Nepali legal academy's uniform citation guide (the law campuses' common standard: the citation style the seminar report must follow). The citation craft's core (the universal faces the manual governs): (1) the cases: the party names (italicised/underlined), the court, the year, the decision number-and-reporter (the NKP citation's anatomy — the D.N.-year-volume-page discipline: Party v. Party, D.N. , NKP 20_ B.S., Vol. , p. __); (2) the statutes: the Act's short title with the year (the Nepal Bar Council Act, 2050 B.S.), the section-and-subsection precision (the pinpoint cite); (3) the books: the author, the title, the edition, the place-and-publisher, the year, the page; (4) the articles: the author, the title (in quotes), the journal's volume, the year, the page; (5) the repeated citations: the ibid. (the immediately-preceding source repeated) and the supra (the earlier source recalled — the note's number cross-referenced); (6) the Nepali sources' transliteration (the B.S.-A.D. dates; the Nepali titles' romanisation — the manual's own conventions). The citation's discipline: every quotation footnoted; every proposition's source identified; the style consistent throughout (the one-manual rule); the bibliography formatted in the manual's classes (the primary-and-secondary division).