Norwegian laws and regulations

In-text citations

Format: Law/regulation short title year: paragraph

Ex.: Equality and anti-discrimination act 2007: §4

In the reference list

Format: Law/regulation short title. (Year). The full name of the law/regulation (law code). Site name. URL

Ex.: Equality and anti-aiscrimination act. (2017). Act relating to equality and a prohibition against discrimination (LOV-2017-06-16-1). Lovdata. https://lovdata.no/dokument/NLE/lov/2017-06-16-51

Note: Remove the URL if you are referencing the printed edition of the Norwegian Laws.

NoteAlways reference the original law unless you refer to a particular change in the law. If you are referencing a particular change, you have to use the date for the change instead of the date of the original law.

EndNote

Add as Report.

Fill in the fields Author (Law/regulation short title), Year, Title, Report Number (insert law code) and URL.

Note: Add a comma at the end of the short title for titles consisting of more than one word.

Zotero

Add as Book

Fill in the fields Title, Author, Edition, Publisher, Date, URL

Note: In the author field, enter the short title of the law, for example Arbeidsmiljøloven.
In the edition field, enter the date code, for example LOV-2005-06-17-62.
Publisher is Lovdata if you have downloaded the law from there. For the printed version of a law, the publisher is the department that issued the law.