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'scraft (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.The syllabus prescribes a case for this section; its citation and holding are withheld until verified.• 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. Thebibliography'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 — used carefully in the modern style). The exam's warning: citation is not decoration — the untraceable authority is the failed authority; the miscited case is the examiner's red…