Notes for contributors | Instruksies aan outeurs Contributors must familiarise themselves with the house style of the journal. Please ensure that submissions comply with the house style. Abbreviations 1

As a general rule, abbreviations should be avoided, and names of countries or organisations must be written out in full (for example: ‘United Nations’, and not ‘UN’). Note that where abbreviations are used, it should be without full stops (for example: ‘UN’, and not ‘U.N.’).

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Names of well-known journals are abbreviated (for example: SALJ, SA Merc LJ, THRHR, CILSA, but De Rebus).

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Names of judicial officers are followed by their titles, in abbreviated form (for example: Du Plessis J [Judge], Mufamadi AJ [Acting Judge]).

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Where the word ‘section’ is used with reference to an enactment, it is abbreviated (‘s’, plural: ‘ss’) (also, ‘subsection’, abbreviated as ‘subsec’, plural: ‘subsecs’), except at the beginning of a sentence,, where it is written out in full. Where the word ‘section’ is used with reference to a book or certain foreign codes of law, it is written as ‘§’ (plural: ‘§§’), except at the beginning of a sentence, where it is written out in full.

Capitalisation The use of capital letters should be avoided: thus, as a general rule, write ‘a court’, ‘the judge’, ‘the minister’, ‘the government’, ‘the state’. However, capitals should be used when referring to individual institutions with given names, such as ‘the Appellate Division’, ‘the Natal Provincial Division’ and ‘the United Nations’. Cross-references You may not use ‘loc cit’ (‘in the place cited’) or ‘Idem’ (‘the same’), but you may use ‘Ibid’ (‘in the same place’). Footnotes In articles, references to cases, journals, statutes and books must appear in footnotes, numbered consecutively throughout. In other material (that is, comments, notes, correspondence, book reviews and case notes) the reference is incorporated in the text in round brackets. 125

The footnotes of an article should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals in superscript after any punctuation mark, and without any brackets or full stop (for example: ‘Regal21 left the position unclear. This was in conflict with the view of Jones J;22 but it was correct.’ Gender-neutral language Gender-neutral language should be used. Italics 1

Words in a foreign language Words and expressions in a language other than the language of the manuscript are not printed in italics, but in roman print; however, if they are in italics in the quotation, they must remain in italics.

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Emphasis Words or phrases to be emphasised must be rendered in italics. If the author of the article has added emphasis in a quotation, it must be indicated that the emphasis is the author’s, using square brackets – ‘[emphasis/emphases added]’.

Quotation marks In general, single quotation marks (‘/’) should be used, but double quotation marks (“/”) within quotations. References 1

References should be cited in the following manner: (i) Cases S v De Blom 1977 (3) SA 513 (A) S v Makwanyane 1995 (6) BCLR 665 (CC) (ii) Journals JM Burchell ‘Wilful blindness and the criminal law’ (1985) 9 SACJ 261 (Note: first the author’s initials, then the surname, with no space between initials; the title of the article is in single quotation marks; the year of publication is in brackets; the volume number of the journal must be provided; the journal title is italicised/underlined; only the page number on which the article begins is provided.) (iii) Books CR Snyman Criminal Law 5 ed (1990) 555 (Note: first the author’s initials, then the surname, with no space between initials; the word ‘page’ (or ‘p’) and the names of the publisher and the 126

place of publication are not included.) Composite works RS Frase ‘Fair trial standards in the United States of America’ in DS Weissbrodt and R Wolfrum (eds) The Right to a Fair Trial (1998) 35 (v) Statutes Criminal Procedure Act 55 of 1977 (Note: the name of the Act must be referred to in full, plus the number and the year.) (vi) Theses A Dlamini Family Violence in South African Criminal Law LLM (Natal) (1960) 30 (vii) The Internet web address [visited 10 April 2003] (viii) Newspaper articles This Day 14 April 2003 4 (ix) Symposia J van Niekerk ‘The use of geographical indications in a collective marketing strategy: the example of cognac’ 1999 Symposium on the international protection of geographical indications, Somerset West, Cape Province, South Africa, 1-2 September 1999, Geneva: WIPO 81. (iv)

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Subsequent references (i) to a case S v De Blom supra (n 000) at 123B-C (Note: ‘supra’ is not italicised; ‘000’ is the number of the footnote in which the case is first referred to; the page referred to is indicated by ‘at,’ plus side-letters [if necessary].) (ii) to a journal article Burchell op cit (n 000) at 123 (Note the use of ‘at’ in this case.) (iii) to a book Snyman op cit (n 000) 234 (Note: only the author’s surname is used; ‘op cit’ is not italicised; ‘000’ is the number of the footnote in which the work is first referred to; the page number is not preceded by ‘at’.) (iv) to a composite work RS Frase ‘Fair trial standards in the United States of America’ in DS Weissbrodt and R Wolfrum (eds) The Right to a Fair Trial (1998) 35 (v) to statutes Statutes must be repeated in full.

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(Note: in all instances, ‘ibid’ is used only when repeating the immediately preceding reference exactly, in which case it is superfluous and incorrect to use page numbers, authors’ names, section numbers, etc.) 3

Examples (i) CR Snyman Criminal Law 5 ed (1990) 555. (ii) Ibid. (iii) JM Burchell ‘Wilful blindness and the criminal law’ (1985) 9 SACJ 261. (iv) S v Makwanyane 1995 (6) BCLR 665 (CC). (v) S v Makwanyane supra (n 4) at 478i-j. (vi) Snyman op cit (n 1) 179. (vii) Burchell op cit (n 3) at 262. (viii) Section 2 of the Criminal Procedure Act 55 of 1977. Compare s 29. (ix) A Dlamini Family Violence in South African Criminal Law LLM (Natal) (1960) 30. (x) Dlamini op cit (n 9) 78.

Technical requirements 1

All material should be in computer print-out form (hard copy), in double spacing on A4 paper. The print-out should be accompanied by a computer disk containing the files, preferably in MSWord.

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Top and bottom margins should be 25mm wide, and left and right margins 31mm.

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Times New Roman font size 12 should be used for ordinary text, and size 10 for footnote text.

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Headings should be outline numbered in Legal Style and in Arial font, as follows: (i) Heading 1 : font size 14 bold (ii) Heading 2 : font size 12 regular (iii) Heading 3 : font size 12 italic

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The first paragraph under a heading should begin at the left margin, whereas subsequent paragraphs should be indented (8mm).

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Short quotations should remain part of the text, whereas lengthier quotations should be indented (12mm, size 10 font).

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Authors of articles must supply their professional or academic details for publication. Quotations and references should be carefully checked for accuracy.

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