Treaties and United Nations Materials
Treaties, the Charter, resolutions, UN documents and the ILC Yearbook.
Chapter 10 covers international material, and it says at the outset that it deals only with the more commonly used sources. A form that is not there is not an omission; it is the chapter’s stated scope.
Treaties
A treaty name is not italicised, which makes it almost unique in this chapter.
Give the name, the treaty series, then a bracket carrying the date it was opened for signature or signed, and the date it entered into force.
Treaty name series (opened for signature date, entered into force date), pinpoint.
Parties
Only a bilateral treaty names its parties, joined by an en dash, and not even then where the parties are already in the name (r 10.1.1(b)).
No parallel citations
r 10.1.1(c) allows one treaty series only. A treaty not yet in force may appear in no series at all, and that is fine.
The Charter and other constitutive documents
The founding instruments of the United Nations are cited by name and provision, with nothing else.
Resolutions
A resolution is the organ, the number and the year. A Security Council resolution generally has no title, and where a resolution number carries a session number that session number is dropped (r 10.4.2(a)).
Other United Nations material
Everything else the United Nations publishes is cited by its document number and date (r 10.4.3).
The ILC Yearbook
The Yearbook of the International Law Commission has its own form under r 10.4.4.
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TreatyUnited Nations constitutive documentUnited Nations resolutionOther United Nations materialYearbook of the International Law CommissionLast reviewed 6 August 2026