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Die Friedens-Warte

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Notation Guideline

Abbreviations
  • On its first mention within the text, please state the word in full with the abbreviation in parentheses.
  • Laws: On its first mention within the text, state the law with full title or short title with the abbreviation in parentheses. For further mentioning the abbreviation can be used.
  • Conventions: On its first mention within the text, state the full title with the abbreviation in parentheses, e.g. “Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCWC)”.
  • Institutions: On its first mention within the text, state the full name of the institution with the abbreviation in parentheses. For further mentioning the abbreviation can be used, e.g. “International Court of Justice (ICJ)”.
Spelling
  • In the running text use of small letters is common with the following exceptions: titles of organisations, programs, employment titles, established terms etc. There are various spellings for English words which are standardised as follows: peacebuilding, nation-building, state-building, capacity-building, powersharing
  • If you refer to a legal discipline, please use lower case letters, e.g. “international humanitarian law”.
  • “state” should be spelled in lower case letters, e.g. “state parties”.
  • If you use the word “Article” in the main body of the text, please use capital letters. In footnotes, “Article” must be abbreviated as “Art.” Generally, Arabic numbers are used. Please indicate the paragraph in parenthesis with a non-breaking space, e.g. “Article 3 (2)”. The space is also inserted after the article followed by a litera, e.g. “Art. 15 (c)”. In case the quotation style differs exceptions are possible.
  • Use a hyphen when using the word “non-international” (armed conflict).

Citation guidelines

References
  • The correct form of citation in Die Friedens-Warte is either the “Harvard” method with the reference in parenthesis within the running text or the usage of footnotes. The reference list contains the complete bibliographical references, the references within the text only indicate to them.
  • Footnotes should be numbered, starting with 1. Each footnote should end with a full stop (if the footnote ends with an abbreviation, it still ends with only one full stop, not two). If a footnote refers to several sources, a semicolon should separate the sources. Please use a consistent style of quotation (examples below).
    • If a source contains several authors, please list them by name and separate the names using an oblique. If a source contains more than three authors, only the first one should be listed by name, complemented by et al.
    • Please use commas to separate the specific details of a source, e.g. “sect. 5, para. 3“.
    • When referring to a source published in an academic journal or an edited collection, please do not include the first page number of the cited article/chapter or the page numbers of the complete article.
    • References of literature are structured as followed: name year, page.
      Example: “Smith 2001, p. 35”, not “Smith (2001)”, “Smith, 2001” or “Smith 2001, 35”
  • If a reference refers to several sources, a semicolon should separate the sources. When indicating different texts of the same author, a comma should separate the different years.
    Example: Smith 1999a, p. 37, 1999b, p. 87, p. 91; Miller 2001, p. 127.
  • The above mentioned styles of quotation apply to all kinds of literature including journal articles and websites.
  • Court Rulings: Court rulings are indicated by stating the name of the court, parties (common title), date, reference and page number
    Example: International Court of Justice, Hungary vs. Slovakia (Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Project), 25.09.1997, I.C.J. Reports 1997, p. 7.
  • Treaties: Treaties are cited by stating the official title (if applicable short title), reference (UNTS, BGBI etc.), and page number.
    Example: Wiener Übereinkommen über das Recht der Verträge, BGBl. 1985 II, p. 927.