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McGill Style Guide (10th ed).

Journals

Follow the order of information, punctuation, and capitalization in the examples below. See section 6.1 of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (10th ed.). 

Author's First Name Second Name (if given) Author's Last Name, "Title of Article" (Year) Volume:Issue Abbreviated Journal Title First Page of Article at Pinpoint, DOI: <String of Letters and Numbers (if given)>.

NOTE: Abbreviate the journal title using Appendix D in the McGill Guide or refer to the Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations (see section 6.1.6). In the below examples, the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal was abbreviated to "CLELJ" according to the appendix. Also, if there are more than three authors, list the first author followed by the term "et al." (see section 6.1.2.2).

Examples

One Author:

Nicholas Bala, "Shared Parenting in Canada: Not Presumed, but Increasingly Accepted" (2022) 41:2 Can Fam LQ 155 at 160.

Three Authors::

Owen Gallupe, Martin Bouchard & Garth Davies, "Delinquent Displays and Social Status among Adolescents" (2015) 57:4 Can J Corr 439 at 440, DOI: <10.313/cjccj.2013.E49>.

More Than Three Authors:

Leah F Vosko et al, "A Tattered Quilt: Exceptions and Special Rules Under Ontario's Employment Standards Act" (2019) CLELJ 21:2 267 at 270.

Your professor may have different citing expectations than library staff. Always check at the beginning of term and before starting assignments that the citing rules you are using are appropriate for your class.