5.2 The Citation Basics

The legal citation's core elements (any consistent style accepted — the convener's guide controls):1. Cases: the party names (italicised in print), the year, the court, the citation — the Nepali form: Party v. Party, NKP year, No., D.No., page (the syllabus's own case lists are the model).2. Statutes: the short title and year — the Consumer Protection Act 2075 (2018); the section on first use (the Interpretation course's caution on section numbers).3. Books: the author, the title, the edition, the year (the page).4. Articles: the author, the title, the journal's volume, the year, the page.5. Web sources: the author/organisation, the title, the site, the date, the URL and the access date — the unstable source's caution.6. Quotations: the short quotes in the text with quotation marks; the long quotes indented; the verbatim discipline (the alteration marked with brackets); the Nepali passages translated (the translation noted).