When Council of Europe documents and archives are used as source material, clear reference must be made to them. See below some examples showing how to quote Council of Europe work. The format to use is that specified by the publisher or publishing institution.


Audiovisual

Author, Title, medium (optional), year

Examples in a written document

Council of Europe, Naturopa, film 16mm, 1972

Conseil de l'Europe, Corporate Film, MP4, 2010

Council of Europe-Euronews, Europeans - Roma culture: a European heritage, DVD, 2010

Examples in an audiovisual document, end credits

Archives of the Council of Europe

Archives du Conseil de l'Europe


Documents

Author, Title, Place: Publisher, year (if they exist). Document reference number

Examples

Council of Europe, Standing Conference on University Problems (CC-PU), 12th session, Madrid, 14-16 March 1989, European University co-operation in the context of the international relations of the university : reports by universities, case studies of policy and practice, Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 1989. DECS/ESR(89)17

Council of Europe, European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission), Unidem Campus Trieste Seminar “Models of regional development”, Trieste, 21-24 April 2008, Report Setting up a European grouping of territorial co-operation (EGTC) at the European Union’s external borders, Kaartinen, Elina, 5 May 2008. CDL-UDT(2008)015


Adopted texts

Author, Title, Information on adoption

Examples

Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, Resolution (74) 33 on planning and programming intergovernmental activities of the Council of Europe (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 20 November 1974 at the 238th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)

Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, Recommandation No. R (89) 9 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on computer-related crime (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 13 September 1989 at the 428th meeting of the Ministers’s Deputies)

Conseil de l’Europe Assemblée parlementaire, Contestation des pouvoirs des délégations parlementaires de l’Irlande et de Malte, Résolution 1360 (2004). Edition provisoire

Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, 11th session, Strasbourg, 25-27 May 2004, Recommendation 152 (2004) on local policing in Europe


Archive files

Source. Title, year(s). File number, file part (if they exist)

Examples

Council of Europe Archives, International Conference on Social Work, 1958-1965. 097 55

Archives du Conseil de l’Europe, Versement de la Direction générale de la démocratie et des affaires politiques, Direction des institutions démocratiques, 1983-2001

Council of Europe Archives, Greece: CE documents, Jan-Apr.1969. GA358

Archives du Conseil de l’Europe, Colloque de chercheurs européens spécialistes des problèmes de jeunesse, 1968-1970. 1711


Publications

Author, Title, Place: Publisher, year. ISBN or ISSN (if it exists)

Examples

Lethier, H., “Ramsar : the wetlands convention”, Naturopa, no. 69 (1992), p. 8-9. ISSN 0250-7072

Petaux, Jean, L’Europe de la démocratie et des droits de l’homme : l’action du Conseil de l’Europe, Strasbourg: Editions du Conseil de l’Europe, 2009. ISBN 978-92-871-6506-0

Biomédecine et droits de l’homme : la Convention d’Oviedo et ses protocoles additionnels, Strasbourg: Editions du Conseil de l’Europe, 2010. ISBN 978-92-871-6758-3

Verschelden, Griet ; Coussée, Filip ; Van de Walle, Tineke and Williamson, Howard (eds.), The history of youth in Europe : relevance for youth today, Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-92-871-6608-1

Conseil de l’Europe Assemblée consultative, huitième session ordinaire (Troisième partie), 8-11 janvier 1957, Compte rendu des débats, Tome IV, séances 30 à 38, Strasbourg : Conseil de l'Europe, 1957

Congrès des pouvoirs locaux et régionaux du Conseil de l’Europe, Textes adoptés 17e session, 13-15 octobre 2009 : Recommandations 270 à 279, Résolutions 285 à 294, Strasbourg: Editions du Conseil de l’Europe, 2009. ISSN 1680-4619 et ISBN 978-92-871-6755-2