AGLC4 Rule 9.2.6: Session (and Part) Number

Give the session number of the organ, committee or other body that produced the document. Where the session is divided into parts, add the part number as well. Session numbers are not given for Security Council resolutions.

AGLC4 page 146

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 146
Ordinal Number of Session sess

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

Formatting

  • The session is an ordinal in figures with superscript letters, followed by a space and sess, with no full stop.
  • A part number follows the session after a comma, as an ordinal with superscript letters followed by pt, with no full stop.
  • A comma follows the session (or part).
  • No session number is given for a Security Council resolution.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 146
  1. 13
    UN SCOR, 62nd sess, 5663rd mtg, UN Doc S/PV.5663 (17 April 2007).
  2. 14
    UN GAOR, 6th Comm, 3rd sess, 1st pt, 77th mtg, UN Doc A/C.6/SR.77 (18 October 1948).

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 146
  • ‘4th sess’
  • ‘4th sess, 3rd pt’
  • ‘Part’
  • ‘pt’

See also

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