AGLC4 Rule 13.4: International Economic Materials: Short Title and Subsequent References

WTO agreements annexed to the Marrakesh Agreement may take a short title under rule 13.1.1; in text, the relevant part is named in full on first mention and a short title may then be given. WTO and GATT documents, panel reports, Appellate Body reports, arbitrators' decisions and GATT panel reports may take a short title under rule 1.4.4, and their subsequent references repeat the document number, and for reports the reporting body. Ibid is used for all chapter 13 material.

AGLC4 page 191

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 191
Short Title, WTO/GATT Doc Document Number (n Footnote Number) Pinpoint.
Name of the Reporting Body, Short Title, WTO/GATT Doc Document Number (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 short title is italic, inside curly single quotation marks, inside round brackets, at the end of the first citation.
  • A subsequent reference to a WTO or GATT document: italic short title, comma, WTO Doc or GATT Doc and the number, space, (n and footnote number), space, pinpoint, full stop.
  • A subsequent reference to a report or decision starts with the reporting body (Panel Report, Appellate Body Report and so on) in roman and a comma, then the italic short title, comma, the document number, (n X) and the pinpoint.
  • A short title keeps any italic em dashes and italic round brackets that are part of it.
  • Ibid is used for all chapter 13 material, followed by a changed pinpoint where needed.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 191
  1. 23
    Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, opened for signature 15 April 1994, 1867 UNTS 3 (entered into force 1 January 1995) annex 1A (‘Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade’) (‘TBT Agreement’).
  2. 25
    TBT Agreement (n 23) art 2.1.
  3. 27
    Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Products, WTO Doc WT/MIN(96)/16 (13 December 1996) (‘Information Technology Agreement’).
  4. 29
    Information Technology Agreement, WTO Doc WT/MIN(96)/16 (n 27) para 2.
  5. 30
    Appellate Body Report, United States — Measures Relating to Zeroing and Sunset Reviews — Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by Japan, WTO Doc WT/DS322/AB/RW (18 August 2009, adopted 31 August 2009) (‘US — Zeroing (Article 21.5 — Japan)’).
  6. 31
    Ibid [160].
  7. 33
    Appellate Body Report, US — Zeroing (Article 21.5 — Japan), WTO Doc WT/DS322/AB/RW (n 30) [162].

In the text

… Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (‘TBT Agreement’)23 … .

Quoted from the Guide, page 191

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 191
  • Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (‘TBT Agreement’)

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.