Answered By: Claire Mazer
Last Updated: 16 Oct, 2023     Views: 132

Law publishers use abbreviations for the law reports and journals in which cases and journal articles are published, for example:  

Eva Lomnicka, ‘Unfair credit relationships: five years on’ [2012] JBL 713.

JBL (towards the end of the citation) is the abbreviation of the journal title in which Lomnicka's article is published. The pattern is similar for law reports where cases are published. You can find out what the abbreviations stands for using the Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations http://www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk/. 

Once you have the full title of the publication, i.e. JBL = Journal of Business Law, you can search for the journal title (Journal of Business Law) using the E-journals A-Z to see if Brunel provides access to the publication. You'll also find some law reports and journals in printed form in the law library. These can be found using the library catalogue.

Both the E-Journals A-Z and the library catalogue can be searched via https://www.brunel.ac.uk/life/library. Locate the Library Search box (towards the top of the screen). If you wish to search the E-Journals A-Z, click first on the Journals tab before searching by title. If you wish to search the library catalogue, click first on the Books tab before searching by title. 

As ever, please ensure you are logged on to the network to gain full text access (where applicable) to law reports and journal articles. To do this click on the pink hyperlink 'Access resources off campus' which you will find above the Library Search box.