AGLC4 Rule 9.2.11: Official Documents of the United Nations: Full Date

Give the document's full date in round brackets after the document number, using the date printed directly under the number where several dates appear. If the adoption date differs and is relevant, add it in the same bracket. Where no full date is shown, give as much as the document provides.

AGLC4 page 151

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 151
(Full Date, adopted Full Date of Adoption)

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

Formatting

  • The date sits in round brackets after a single space following the document number.
  • The date is written day, month in full, year.
  • The date used is the one printed directly beneath the document number, not a meeting date.
  • An adoption date is added inside the same bracket after a comma, introduced by the lower case word adopted.
  • A partial date, such as a year alone, is given where that is all the document shows.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 151
  1. 26
    Maurice Kamto, Special Rapporteur, Third Report on the Expulsion of Aliens, UN Doc A/CN.4/581 (19 April 2007) 6 [11].
  2. 27
    UN GAOR, 5th Comm, 51st sess, 68th mtg, UN Doc A/C.5/51/SR.68 (12 August 1997). [Not: … (4 June 1997).]
  3. 28
    General and Complete Disarmament, GA Res 49/75, UN Doc A/RES/49/75 (9 January 1995, adopted 15 December 1994) pt K.
  4. 29
    Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly, UN Doc A/520/Rev.17 (2008).

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 151
  • [Not: … (4 June 1997).]
    the meeting date is wrong; the date under the document number is used

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 151
  • ‘(27 July 2001, adopted 14 June 2001)’

See also

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