6.4 A Uniform Rule of Citation and Bibliography

The citation's function: the authorities' traceability (the reader's verification right) and the credit's honesty (the plagiarism's antidote — 6.5). The systems: the international Bluebook (the US-law standard), the OSCOLA (the UK), and the Nepali uniform citation style (the Nepal Law Campus manual — Mukhia and Parajuli's Manual of Uniform Citation Style for Legal Research, named in the syllabus's references — the Nepali student's home guide). The Nepali citation's craft (the exam's practicable core): • Statutes: the Act's full name with year — The Muluki Civil Code, 2074 (2017); the section's pinpoint (s. 505) where verified. • Cases (NKP): Party v. Party, NKP [year], Vol. [volume/issue], Decision No. [number], p. [page] — e.g. Kamala Amatya v. Himalayan Bank Ltd., NKP 2070, Vol. 4, D.No. 8997 (the syllabus's own format — the consistent habit). • Books: Author, Title (edition, year) — Kothari, C.R., Research Methodology (4th ed., 2021). • Articles: Author, "Title", Journal vol. (year), page. • Web sources: the author, the title, the site, the URL, the access date (the currency's confession). • The Constitution: the article's pinpoint — Constitution of Nepal (2015), art. 133. The bibliography's layout: the sources' classified lists (the primary: statutes, cases, constitutions; the secondary: books, articles, reports; the tertiary: interviews, archives) — alphabetical within class; the footnotes' vs endnotes' choice; the ibid-and-supra discipline (the repetition's economy…