Use of Op. Cit in notes and reference lists

Op. Cit. may be used in footnotes and reference lists where there are repeated citations to the same bibliographical reference, but only part of the citation is duplicated to reduce duplication of text in the print version.

This topic is only relevant to the capture of Op cit. within legal content. For non-legal content, capture per guidance in Bibliographic references and citations.

Where Op. Cit. Latin, short for "opus citatum"/"opere citato", meaning "the work cited/from the cited work" is used to refer to a reference that appears earlier in a list of notes or references capture it using xref within bibItem. The bibItem element must have the attributes and attribute values required for the class of bibliographical reference, including any attribute values present in the first instance of the bibliographical reference, such as place, publisher and date, that are not present in the text of the second instance of the reference.

Example

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Notes 1 and 2 in the above example are exactly the same, but the publisher, place and date information has not been included in the citation.

Example use of Op. Cit.


      <noteGroup>
        <note id="law-ildc-06uk238-chapter-2-note-1" type="footnote"><p>
 <enumerator>1.</enumerator>
 <bibItem id="law-ildc-06uk238-chapter-2-bibItem-27" class="book" title="The Justices of the Peace" author="Norma Landau" date="1984" publisher="University of California Press" place="Berkeley and Los Angeles">
                         <nameGrp mainName="Landau" foreNames="Norma">Norma Landau</nameGrp>, <i>The Justices of the
                Peace 1679–1760</i> (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press
              1984)</bibItem></p>
        </note>
        <note id="law-ildc-06uk238-chapter-2-note-2" type="footnote"><p>
 <enumerator>2.</enumerator>
 <bibItem id="law-ildc-06uk238-chapter-2-bibItem-28" class="book" title="The Justices of the Peace" author="Norma Landau" date="1984" publisher="University of California Press" place="Berkeley and Los Angeles">
                         <nameGrp mainName="Landau" foreNames="Norma">Norma Landau</nameGrp>, <i>The Justices of the
                Peace 1679–1760</i>
   <xrefGrp>
                             <xref ref="law-ildc-06uk238-chapter-2-bibItem-27">Op.
              Cit.</xref>
                         </xrefGrp>
                     </bibItem></p>
        </note>
      </noteGroup>