The Oscola package works (only!) with Biblatex (v3.14 or later) and Biber (v2.14 or later). It aims to implement, almost completely, the OSCOLA style of legal citation, according to the 4th edition. For further information about coverage see the documentation.
The package consists of five principal files (oscola.bbx
, oscola.cbx
, and three language definition files,
english-oscola.lbx
, british-oscola.lbx
, and american-oscola.lbx
). There is also a very short index
style file, oscola.ist
. Those files are copyright (c) Paul Stanley
2012-20.
This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later version.
The latest version of the license is in available online and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later.
This work has the LPPL maintenance status 'maintained'. The current maintainer of this work is Paul Stanley (pstanley@essexcourt.net).
The documentation consists of oscola.tex
, oscola.pdf
and
oscola-examples.bib
. Those files are distributed under the Creative
Commons Attribution 3.0-Unported License (CC BY 3.0). A copy of that
license is available online.
All bug reports, questions, or suggestions should be sent to the maintainer, whose email is pstanley@essexcourt.net.
I find the TDS difficult. TeXlive, whose maintainers apparently don't, currently installs as follows:
oscola.bbx
: in the package directory...tex/latex/oscola
oscola.cbx
: in the package directory.../tex/latex/oscola
english-oscola.lbx
: in the package directory.../tex/latex/oscola
british-oscola.lbx
: in the package directory.../tex/latex/oscola
american-oscola.lbx
: in the package directory.../tex/latex/oscola
oscola.pdf
andoscola.tex
: with documentation under.../doc/latex/oscola
oscola.ist
: with the index style files in.../makeindex/oscola
August 2012 Version 1 Original release
May 2013 Version 1.2 Various bugfixes, and implementation of citation scheme for UN documents
October 2013 Version 1.3 Corrected spacing bug
May 2014 Version 1.4 Various bugs have been fixed, an additional index has been installed, and there have been minor improvements to the documentation
March 2017 Version 1.5 The package has been updated to take account of changes in Biblatex; various bugs have been fixed; experimental support has been added for the use of ECLI numbers in EU cases.
March 2018 Version 1.6 The package has been updated again to take account of minor changes in Biblatex; various bugs have been fixed; support for \textcite has been improved.
March 2020 Version 1.7 The package has been updated to take account of changes in Biblatex.