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If a text needs to be quoted, please simply proceed as follows in Word:

Select the quoted text and apply the "Quote" or "Block Text" style.

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Please use only footnotes (not endnotes or others), separate your sources with a semicolon, and end with a period.

Sources must be cited fully the first time1. Subsequently, a short form with the author(s) name and the footnote number of the first citation in parentheses should be used2. For comments or other works that are usually cited in a recognizable manner, it is also possible to define a citation method the first time (short and clear3), which is then reused, always with the footnote number in parentheses4.

Abbreviations should be used sparingly and appear in parentheses the first time. For example, the Federal Court (FC) is the supreme judicial authority in Switzerland.

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It is possible to make numbered lists, with a maximum of three levels:

1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
2. Consectetur adipiscing elit
   1. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt
   2. Ut enim ad minim veniam
      1. Quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi
      2. Ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat
   3. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur
3. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum

The same applies to bulleted lists:

• Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
• Consectetur adipiscing elit
  • Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt
  • Ut enim ad minim veniam
    • Quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi
    • Ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat
  • Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur
• Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum

It is also possible to create tables:

Table source

Notes:

• 1

  Hurtado Pozo José/Godel Thierry, Droit pénal général : Théorie, Tableaux synoptiques, Méthodologie de résolution de cas pénaux, Lexique pénal, Répertoire des termes allemands, 4th ed. completed and updated, Schulthess Editions romandes 2023, n° 1.

• 2

  Hurtado Pozo/Godel (fn 1), n° 1280.

• 3

  Godel Thierry, in: Macaluso Alain/Moreillon Laurent/Queloz Nicolas (eds.), Commentaire Romand - Code pénal II, Helbing Lichtenhahn 2017 (cited: CR CP-Godel), art. 275 n° 1.

• 4

  CR CP-Godel (fn 3), n° 2.