This document provides guidance on sourcing articles in legal writing. It gives an example of how to cite a journal article, including the author's name, article title in quotation marks, journal name, journal volume and issue, and page number. It also demonstrates how to search for an article online using keywords from the title and author's name to create a search string combining the terms within a specified number of words.

1. Sourcing Articles
On an Article
Examples used:
(1991) 50 C.L.J. 252
Gray, Kevin, ‘Property in Thin Air’ (1991) 50 Cambridge Law Journal 252.
https://doi-org.libproxy.murdoch.edu.au/10.1017/S0008197300080508

2. Determine search terms:
Gray
property
air

3. Create search string:
(property /5 air) AND Gray
Note: /5 means 1st search term is within
n words of 2nd search term