AGLC4 Rule 9.5: United Nations Materials: Short Title and Subsequent References

UN documents may be given short titles, and a subsequent reference gives the short title with the document number and a cross reference to the earlier footnote. Communications to treaty committees and yearbook items may also take short titles, but their subsequent references follow the ordinary rule without a document number. Ibid may be used.

AGLC4 page 157

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 157
Short Title, UN Doc UN Document Number (n Footnote Number) Pinpoint.

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Formatting

  • A short title is italic, in curly single quotation marks, inside round brackets, after the date bracket or pinpoint.
  • A subsequent reference to a UN document is the italic short title, a comma, UN Doc and the document number, then n and the footnote number in round brackets, then the pinpoint.
  • A subsequent reference to a yearbook item gives its quoted roman title, then n and the footnote number in round brackets, then the pinpoint, with no comma.
  • Ibid is followed by the pinpoint after a space (rule 1.4.3).

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 157
  1. 45
    SC Res 1325, UN SCOR, 4213th mtg, UN Doc S/RES/1325 (31 October 2000) (‘Resolution 1325’).
  2. 46
    Ibid para 3.
  3. 48
    Resolution 1325, UN Doc S/RES/1325 (n 45) para 7.
  4. 49
    ‘Legal Aspects of International Political Relations’ (1988) 42 Yearbook of the United Nations 796, 801.
  5. 51
    ‘Legal Aspects of International Political Relations’ (n 49) 797.

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 157
  • ‘Ibid’
  • ‘Resolution 1325’

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.