Style Sheet for authors preparing texts for the European Journal of International Law Part III: Citation of EC Documents and Texts

A. Court of Justice

B. Council, Commission and European Parliament Documents

Part III: Citation of EC Documents and Texts

A. Court of Justice

Case 43/75, Defrenne II, [1976] ECR 455.

or

..., Rec. 12 of judgment.

or

Case 43/75, Gabrielle Defrenne v. Société anonyme belge de navigation aérienne SABENA, [1976] ECR 455, at 465

or

Advocate General ... in Case ..., [1976] ECR 455, at 459.

The case name can either be the full name as published in the ECR or an abbreviated version of the full name if it is commonly used and unequivocal (indubitable, obvious, definite) It should be printed in italics. References to specific passages should be made by recital (`Rec.') for the judgment, by paragraph (`para.') for the AG opinion if it has numbered paragraphs and by page (`at ...') in all other cases.

ECJ judgments should never be quoted from other sources than the ECR unless they have not yet been published in the ECR. In this exceptional case, sources such as CMLR may be quoted. In case of very recent judgments, authors may also refer themselves to the page numbers, recitals and paragraph numbers of the French version of ECR, which appears several months earlier than the English one. This information is usually identical for all language versions.

Examples for quotations of very recent judgments:

Case C-292/89, ..., judgment of 18 December 1992, not yet published.

or

Case ..., judgment of (date), [1992] 3 CMLR 1072 (not yet published in the ECR).

B. Council, Commission and European Parliament Documents

Council Regulation 1612/68, OJ 1968 L 257/2

Commission Directive 76/207, OJ 1976 L 39/40

EP Resolution of 29 May 1990, OJ 1990 C 157/3

Council Declaration of 19 December 1991, OJ 1992 C 27/1

Commission Decision 85/381 of 8 July 1985, OJ 1985 L 217/25

Commission Recommendation of 27 November 1991, OJ 1992 L 49/1

All regulations, directives and decisions should be cited with their number and their publication in the OJ. The date of their adoption and their full or abbreviated title (if a commonly used abbreviation exists) may be added.

The date of their publication in the OJ should not be quoted unless it is of importance of its own.

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