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LEGALRESEARCH.ELSA.ORG INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESEARCH GROUP ON INTERNET CENSORSHIP 2 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESEARCH GROUP ON INTERNET CENSORSHIP Style guide for National Research Group (NRG) Reports Dear Reader, Welcome to one of the most time-consuming processes in publication – the adherence to a defined style guide. As the Final Report of the ILRG on Internet Censorship will be published by our Legal Publishing partner and brought to the international market, the report must be of the highest quality, not only with regards to its content, but also with regards to visual aspects. Mistakes with footnotes or fonts would damage the reputation of the International Legal Research Groups of ELSA, and consequently, of you as a writer. The Style Guide provides you with a guidance on the use of language, formatting and referencing aspects. Since development of the internal template and its successful implementation during the last ILRG, it was decided to keep use of the template for the future NRG Reports. Most of the formatting requirements are already set-up in the template for convenience of the National Research Groups, and it helps to reduce the workload for the members of National Research Groups. However, if you want to use software other than ‘Microsoft Word’ for compilation of the NRG Report, please, ensure compliance with all the criteria set out in this guide. For any further questions related to the formatting, please, do not hesitate to contact the technical editor. For those, who are willing to use the template – please, download it here! Sincerely yours, The International Coordination Team of the ILRG on Internet Censorship 3 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESEARCH GROUP ON INTERNET CENSORSHIP Section 1. Linguistic guidelines Please, find below the main points from the linguistic guide. National Groups are expected to abide by the instructions as per the Language manual, however, several points have their implications also on the formatting: - All Reports must be written in British English1, translate citations from other languages if used. - Plagiarism and political views/opinions are strictly prohibited. With one plagiarism case identified during the check of the first drafts in the previous ILRG, please, keep in mind that the National Groups are responsible for the content of their contributions and must ensure that this rule is respected. - Keep your answers clear and concise. - Dates must be mentioned as follows: 12 March 2019. - The use of bold and or italicised text ought to be minimal. No more than 10 words in a row should be bolded. - Only use italics in the main body for legal terms that cannot be translated and if possible, follow it with a bracketed description of the legal term: e.g. Tribunal Supremo (Supreme Court of Justice). - Use Latin/French/German terms sparingly, and only where it makes sense. e.g. mutatis mutandis, chapeau or kompetenz-kompetenz. Do not overcomplicate your text with these phrases. - Quotations longer than three lines or 40 words are not allowed. Section 2. Formatting guidelines 1 Please, ensure that you chose English (United Kingdom) in the language settings. English of any other region must not be used (e.g. United States, Ireland, etc). Disclaimer: We highly recommend the NRGs to prepare the NRG Report using ‘Microsoft Word’ software. We do not impose the use of this software; however, it would facilitate the successful compilation of the Final Report and its swift submission to the publisher. For organisational purposes, it might be easier to organise the work of researchers by using free online text editors such as Google Docs. However, please, be careful by using this approach, since incompatibility of this software may result in a loss of valuable footnotes or incompliance with general formatting requirements. 4 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESEARCH GROUP ON INTERNET CENSORSHIP 2.1. General formatting requirements The NRGs must submit their NRG Report in .docx format. The main body of the Report2 should be approximately 40 – 50 pages long, however, national discrepancies may be allowed should it be necessary to write a longer or shorter report due to jurisdictional particularities. The report must be structured as follows (you could use this as the checklist): ☐ Title page ☐ Table of content ☐ Acknowledgements (optional) ☐ Introduction ☐ Research questions ☐ Table of legislation ☐ Bibliography 2.2. Page format Every page in the entire document must be set in portrait (vertical) orientation with each page margins set to 2.54 cm. Please, pay a particular attention that for this Final Report A4 format would not be used – the format of each page must be 16 cm (width) and 21 cm (height). 2.3. Text formatting The main body of the text in your report must be written in Garamond (12 pt.) and be justified; in addition to that, please, ensure that no paragraph spacing is set up and interlinear spacing is equal to 1.25. Indentation must not be used neither for headings, nor for the main text. Please, refrain from the use of tables, graphs, diagrams, pictures (or any other visual representation of information), unless it is absolutely necessary. If any visual representation of information is needed to be included in the NRG Report, it must be original (produced by the NRG), editable and to be authorised by the international technical editor prior to the submission of the first draft. 2.4. Title / heading formatting Any reply to the research question must be put under the relevant heading. Subheadings are allowed, if considered necessary by a researcher, given that these are reasonably used.3 Please, ensure that the numbering of a (sub)heading is followed by a full stop, but not the (sub)heading itself. The numbering of the (sub)heading must be done via Arabic numerals only. The use of Roman numerals or letters for the numbering purposes is not allowed. A (sub)heading must be written in the same manner as the main body of the text (please, refer to subsection 2.3.), but with the exception of the paragraph spacing, which must be set up for 2 The main body of the Report, to which the page limit is applied, consists of the following sections: Introduction, Research questions, Conclusion. 3 For the sake of clarity and improving readability, we recommend you limit the use of subheadings with up to three subheadings per one research question (1.1., 1.2. and 1.3., but not 1.4.). In addition to that, please, limit yourself up to the third level of heading (1. – first level, 1.1. – second level, 1.1.1. – third level). 5 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESEARCH GROUP ON INTERNET CENSORSHIP (sub)headings to 8 pt. No text effects (bold, italics, underlined, etc.) could be applied to (sub)headings. Do not add a paragraph (by pressing Enter once) before or after subheading of the second or third level. A paragraph before a heading of the first level is already added in the template. 2.5. Footnote formatting The use of footnotes is allowed for the purposes of quotations or referencing to the source of information, if considered necessary. However, footnotes should not be used for clarifications of author’s notes; additionally, endnotes must not be used in the NRG Report. Footnote text must be written in Garamond (10 pt.) and may not be justified; no paragraph spacing must be set up and interlinear spacing must be set up to 1. Section 3. Referencing guidelines 3.1. Main text and footnotes The general rule remains the same as in the previous ILRGs – reports must follow the OSCOLA Referencing Style.4 In addition to that, the following points must be respected: − A footnote number must follow punctuation mark (after full stop, semicolon, etc.) in the main body of the text. Footnote body must end with a full stop. − There is no need to insert a footnote, if the full reference is given in the main body of the text. For example: “According to the Article 12 of the Treaty of the European Union…”. − Quotations from publications / legislation / case law must always be identical to the original and be provided with the footnote (unless referencing is sufficient in the text). − Links to digital resources must precede with the title, be included in brackets <link>, and follow with the date of most recent access. Please, see example in the footnote.5 It is highly recommended that National Technical Editor (or the National Coordinator in the absence of editor) checks all footnotes and links in the Report before submission of its first and final drafts. 4 Please, find a quick reference guide via the link, and the full guide here. 5 OSCOLA, fourth edition: <https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxlaw/oscola_4th_edn_hart_2012.pdf>, accessed 19 January 2020. Useful tip: In case of doubt, please, always apply a common sense and try to answer to the question: “Will a person, who is not familiar with the legislation of my country, be able to find the source of information to which I refer?”. If the answer to this question is no, please, elaborate your referencing. 6 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESEARCH GROUP ON INTERNET CENSORSHIP 7 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESEARCH GROUP ON INTERNET CENSORSHIP 3.2. Tables The presence of the tables of uploads/s3/ style-guide 5 .pdf