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STYLE GUIDE
Font
- Times New Roman
- Main text: 12
- Quotes (separate) and footnotes: 10
Line Spacing
- Main text and quotes: one and a half
- Footnotes: single
Quotes
- Less than 3 lines:
- Remains in main text
- Single quotation marks
- More than 3 lines:
- Separate quote block
- Block indent, left only (NO additional first line indent)
- No quotation marks
- Line spacing before and after block (line space at font-size 8)
Paragraphing
- First line indent
- No line space between paragraphs
Latin
Footnotes
- Footnote number ALWAYS appears after the last punctuation mark/quotation
mark, eg: ...quick brown fox",4
- Footnote numbers NOT italicized
- Full stops at the end of each footnote entry
- Left aligned
- Cross referencing convention: eg: Brown n7 supra at 789
- "Ibid" permitted
Internet Sites
- Article/resource title
- Author (where available)
- Full site address
- Date accessed
- Cases
- After a first full citation, a shortened case name to be used may be indicated:
eg: …as held in Harksen v Lane NO & Others (2).
…as was recently decided in the Supreme Court of Appeal (3)l.
Books and Articles
- As Schwikkard points out, prior to the 1989 amendments the common law provisions were criticized (4). There has been a variety of responses to these amendments, from support (5)to further scathing criticism (6).
Common journal titles may be given their conventional abbreviations immediately.
Statutes
- This appears from Chapter 2 of the Criminal Procedure Act (7).
- The legislature has shown its belief in this argument (8).
(2) 1998 (1) SA 300 (CC) at par 40, hereinafter referred to as Harksen.
(3) S v P 2000 (3) 80 (SCA) at 90.
(4) PJ Schwikkard Principles of Evidence (1998) at 61.
(5) Schwikkard n4 supra at 62.
(6) J Tempkin "Sexual History Evidence" 1993 Crim LR 3 at 5.
(7) Act 51 of 1977.
(8) Section 24 as read with s67 of the Criminal Procedure Act.
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