The required elements for the reference are:
Short title of act including year, (chapter number), Place of Publication: Publisher.
Reference List
Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment:
|
Mental Health Act 2007. (c.12), Norwich: The Stationery Office. |
In-text citation
Example 1 - where the name of the act occurs naturally in the sentence
A key component of the Mental Health Act 2007 states...
Example 2 - where the name of the act does not occur naturally in the sentence
... and this gives health professionals the power that they need (Mental Health Act 2007).
| Other points to note |
|---|
Points to note:
The Chapter Number here, c.12, refers to the twelfth act passed in 2016. It does not refer to the chapter within the individual act. Note, it is not in italics. Do not include the Chapter Number in the in-text citation.
In the full reference at the end of your assignment, the title of the act is in italics.
In the in-text citation, the title of the act and year (as part of the title) are in italics.
As the year is included as part of the title, there is no need to repeat the date in round brackets after the title.
If you need to cite a specific section, include the section number 's.' as illustrated below:
Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016. s.16 (c.18), Norwich: The Stationery Office.