OSCOLA (March 2026)

KilianUmbach · March 23, 2026

Hi,

the current OSCOLA (1 March 2026) seems to have some bugs: eg it shows the DOI or URL even though this should not show in Book Sections or Journal Articles.

Is anyone experiencing the same?
And is it possible to provide the 'old' OSCOLA style in the repository?

Best regards,
Kilian

dunning · March 23, 2026

I’m working on the recent fifth edition of OSCOLA and will check that this is as correct as possible.

kavana · March 25, 2026

Thanks for looking into this!

Would also request addition of the short reference format - where a long title is referred to as a shortened title name for convenience through the rest of the citations - as an add-on? Perhaps this could use the short title field in zotero when present, and if the case is cited more than once?

This is described in the 5th edition of OSCOLA under the heading 'Short forms of case names' pp 15-17
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2026-03/OSCOLA 5.pdf

jurist · April 1, 2026

I am experiencing the same issue — the DOI is appearing in where it should not. It would be great to have this fixed.

Thank you, dunning, for working on it and for looking into this — much appreciated!

KilianUmbach · April 15, 2026

Could anyone please upload a version of the OSCOLA 4th(!) edn from last year without any DOI to the repository?

Thanks in advance! :)

cripcrit · July 2, 2026

Wondering if there is an update on a fix for this? Deleting all the DOIs and URLs is not a fun time.

yellowdahlias · August 12, 2026

Hi, I was also wondering whether there is an update to de DOI/URL situation, as my footnotes are looking quite unwieldy - thanks so much for all your work!

damnation · August 12, 2026

@dunning
Is this PR ready?
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/8147

kavana · 2026-09-22T06:42:34+00:00

Is there any update on this? thanks