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UC Referencing Guide

UN Yearbook

Format - Yearbook Organised by Year
AGLC rule 9.4 (United Nations Yearbooks) Number 'Title of Work' [Year of Publication] Title of Yearbook Starting Page, Pinpoint.
Format - Yearbook Organised by Volume
AGLC rule 9.4 (United Nations Yearbooks) Number 'Title of Work' (Year of Publication) Volume(Part) Title of Yearbook Starting Page, Pinpoint.
Examples

2 ‘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.

6 'Developments and Trends, 2007' (2007) 32(II) United Nations Disarmament Yearbook 3, 4.

UN Document

Format
AGLC rule 9.2 (Official Documents of the United Nations) Number Author, Title of Document, Resolution or Decision Number, Official Records, Committee Number, Session, Part, Meeting Number, Agenda Item, Supplement Number, UN Document Number (Day Month Year of Publication) Annex Pinpoint.

Element

Example

Rule

Author

H S Amerasinghe,

9.2.1

Title

Informal Single Negotiating Text Part IV Presented by the President of the Conference,

9.2.2

Resolution or Decision Number

GA Res 3314

9.2.3

Official Records

UN GAOR,

9.2.4

Committee Number

4th Comm,

9.2.5

Session (and Part) number

34th sess,

9.2.6

28th sess, 1st pt,

Meeting Number

75th mtg,

9.2.7

46th plen mtg,

Agenda Item

Agenda Item 2,

9.2.8

Supplement

Supp No 3,

9.2.9

UN Document Number

UN Doc A/RES/150

9.2.10

Full Date

(20 August 2008)

9.2.11

Annex

annex I

9.2.12

Pinpoint reference

[2]

9.2.13

Elements and Examples from the AGLC4 Guide. Note: examples are not all from the one document.

 

Examples

13 Millennium Summit of the United Nations, GA Res 54/254, UN GAOR, 54th sess, 93rd plen mtg, Agenda Item 49(b), Supp No 49, UN Doc A/RES/54/254 (23 March 2000, adopted 15 March 2000) para 3.

15 Sub-Commission on the Promotion and protection of Human Rights, Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights, UN ESCOR, 55th sess, 22nd mtg, Agenda Item 4, UN Doc E/CN.4/Sub.2/2003/12/Rev.2 (13 August 2003).

Note

Examples taken from Australian Guide to Legal Citation 3rd Edition.

EndNote Reference Type

UN documents have no format in EndNote and must be entered manually.

Citing a Source Within a Source

When a source is directly quoted in another work enter the reference as:

Full source, quoting Full source

Lorelle Burton, Drew Weston and Robin Kowalski, Psychology (Milton, 2nd ed, 2009), quoting J C Overholser, 'Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Social Phobia' (2002) 32 Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy 125.


When a source is cited (or just mentioned) in another work enter the reference as:

Full source, cited in Full source

G E Schwartz, 'Personality and Health: An Integrative health Science Approach' in VP Makosky (ed), The G. Stanley Hall Lecture Series: Vol 7 (American Psychological Association, 1987), cited in Lorelle Burton, Drew Weston and Robin Kowalski, Psychology (Milton, 2nd ed, 2009) 576.