AGLC4 Rule 10.1: International Court of Justice and Permanent Court of International Justice: Constitutive and Basic Documents

The Statute of either court is cited by its italic title and a pinpoint. The Rules of Court of either court are cited by the court's name, the italic words Rules of Court, the adoption date in brackets, and a pinpoint.

AGLC4 page 159

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 159
Statute of the Court Pinpoint.
Court, Rules of Court (adopted Full Date) Pinpoint.

A boxed element is filled in with the source's details; everything outside a box is written exactly as shown.

Formatting

  • The Statute is cited by its whole title in italics, Statute of the followed by the court's name, then a single space and the pinpoint, with no comma.
  • For the Rules of Court, the court's name comes first, roman, followed by a comma.
  • The words Rules of Court are italic.
  • The adoption date follows in round brackets after a space, introduced by the roman lower case word adopted and written day, month in full, year.
  • The pinpoint follows the bracket after a single space.
  • Each citation ends with a full stop.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 159
  1. 1
    Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice art 22.
  2. 2
    International Court of Justice, Rules of Court (adopted 14 April 1978) pt 1.

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 159
  • ‘ICJ’
  • ‘PCIJ’

See also

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Formats, examples, passages, tables and the forms marked Not are quoted from the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed, Melbourne University Law Review Association, 2018), with the page of the Guide they appear on. Titles, summaries and explanations are our own.