AGLC4 Rule 13.1.1: World Trade Organization: Constitutive and Basic Documents

The Marrakesh Agreement establishing the WTO is cited as a treaty under chapter 8. The other WTO agreements and understandings are annexes to it, so they are cited through the Marrakesh Agreement: the full Marrakesh citation, a pinpoint to the annex, the title of the agreement in quotation marks and parentheses, then any pinpoint within it. A short title may follow, and subsequent references use the short title or title with (n X) and a pinpoint.

AGLC4 page 184

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 184
Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, opened for signature 15 April 1994, 1867 UNTS 3 (entered into force 1 January 1995) Pinpoint to Relevant Annex (‘Title of Agreement or Understanding’) Pinpoint within Relevant Annex.
Short Title/Title of Agreement or Understanding (n Footnote Number) Pinpoint.

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

Formatting

  • The Marrakesh Agreement citation is fixed: italic title, comma, opened for signature and the date, comma, 1867 UNTS 3, then the entry into force in round brackets.
  • The annex pinpoint is the word annex in roman lower case with the annex designation (such as 1A or 2), after one space and no comma.
  • The title of the annexed agreement or understanding is italic, inside curly single quotation marks, inside round brackets, one space after the annex pinpoint.
  • A pinpoint within the annexed agreement follows that bracket after a space, with no comma, using treaty pinpoint abbreviations such as art.
  • An optional short title comes last, italic, inside curly single quotation marks and round brackets.
  • An annexed agreement is never cited as a free-standing treaty; where an annex holds more than one agreement (annexes 1A and 4), the particular agreement must be named.
  • A subsequent reference is the italic short title (or title), a space, (n and the footnote number), a space, the pinpoint and a full stop.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 184
  1. 1
    Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, opened for signature 15 April 1994, 1867 UNTS 3 (entered into force 1 January 1995).
  2. 2
    Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, opened for signature 15 April 1994, 1867 UNTS 3 (entered into force 1 January 1995) annex 1A (‘General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994’) art I(1) (‘GATT 1994’).
  3. 3
    Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, opened for signature 15 April 1994, 1867 UNTS 3 (entered into force 1 January 1995) annex 2 (‘Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes’) (‘DSU’).

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.