Australian Legal Research - Secondary Materials

Finding a Journal Title via Citation

Law journal articles are often given using an abbreviated form of the journal title.

So how do you find out what the title of the journal is from the abbreviated form (or citation).
The best database to use is the Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations.

This is a worldwide index so always make sure you have the right journal.  More often than not you will be wanting the Australian jurisdiction.

You will need to know how to find the full name of a journal as the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC) states in section 4 (page 85) that you need to enter the full name of the journal in the citation (footnote) not the abbreviation.