AGLC4 Rule 9.4: United Nations Yearbooks

Material that exists as a UN document is cited under rule 9.2 even if a yearbook reprints it; this rule is for yearbook material not otherwise available. A yearbook organised by year uses the year in square brackets, and one organised by volume uses the year in round brackets and a volume number. No UN document number is given.

AGLC4 page 155

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 155
‘Title’ [Year] Yearbook Title Starting Page, Pinpoint.
‘Title’ (Year) Volume Number Yearbook Title Starting Page, Pinpoint.

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

Formatting

  • The title is roman in curly single quotation marks, with no comma after the closing quotation mark.
  • An author may precede the title, followed by a comma, where a person or body is clearly the author.
  • For a yearbook organised by year, the year follows in square brackets.
  • Where one year has several volumes, a Roman volume number follows the bracketed year after a space, and a part number in round brackets follows that volume with no space.
  • For a yearbook organised by volume, the year is in round brackets followed by the volume number.
  • An issue or part of a volume is given in round brackets straight after the volume number, with no space.
  • The yearbook title is italic, followed by the starting page, a comma and the pinpoint.
  • No UN document number is included.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 155
  1. 42
    ‘National Legislation Providing for the Levying of Certain Air Travel Taxes — The United Nations Should Be Exempt from Such Taxes under Section 7(a) of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations’ [1973] United Nations Juridical Yearbook 132, 135.
  2. 43
    ‘Judge Bruno Simma’ (2005) 59 International Court of Justice Yearbook 54.
  3. 44
    ‘Developments and Trends, 2007’ (2007) 32(II) United Nations Disarmament Yearbook 3, 4.

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 155
  • ‘[2002] II’
  • ‘[1999] II(2)’
  • ‘34(I)’

See also

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