AGLC4 Rule 8.8: Treaties: Short Title and Subsequent References

A treaty may be given a short title, and so may a part of a treaty such as an annex or schedule, in which case the short title follows the pinpoint to that part and later pinpoints after it refer within that part. Subsequent references use the short title and a cross reference to the earlier footnote, and Ibid may be used.

AGLC4 page 141

Formatting

  • The short title is italic, inside curly single quotation marks, inside round brackets, placed after the pinpoint with a single space.
  • A short title for part of a treaty is placed straight after the pinpoint to that part.
  • A subsequent reference is the italic short title, a space, n and the footnote number in round brackets, a space, and the pinpoint, with no commas.
  • After a short title for part of a treaty, subsequent pinpoints point to divisions within that part.
  • Ibid is followed by the pinpoint where it changes (rule 1.4.3).

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 141
  1. 20
    Treaty on the Zone of Cooperation in an Area between the Indonesian Province of East Timor and Northern Australia, signed 11 December 1989, 1654 UNTS 105 (entered into force 9 February 1991) art 4(2)(a) (‘Timor Gap Treaty’).
  2. 22
    Timor Gap Treaty (n 20) art 6(1).
  3. 23
    Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, opened for signature 13 January 1993, 1974 UNTS 45 (entered into force 29 April 1997) annex (‘Annex on Chemicals’).
  4. 25
    Annex on Chemicals (n 23) pt B sch 2 para 2.

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 141
  • ‘Ibid’
  • ‘Annex on Chemicals’

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.