Oxford University Press Text Capture Instructions

 

OCL citations of EU Official Journal

EU legislation documents are referred to by an Official Journal citation. OUP has a preferred format for citations of this type.

//bibItem/@idnumber

Capture EU Official Journal citations in the format:

[YYYY] OJ X nnn/pp

Where:

YYYY
is the year
X
is a single letter code (often L or C)
nnn
is a number
pp
is the page number

Use this format for all citations (bibItem elements) in the OCL product.

Example of preferred format

Manuscript

Official Journal C 56, 5.3.2005, p32

XML

[2005] OJ C 56/32

Further example of preferred format

Manuscript

OJ L 127, 29.4.2004, p.158

XML

[2004] OJ L 127/158
Release ID:
20261202
ID:
OCL_TCI_topic_2_3
Author:
hillmant
Last changed:
Wed, 04 Jun 2025
Modified by:
buckmasm
Revision#:
4400