Pan-African Parliament/ AGP
Style guide for the Pan-African Parliament and AGP projects.
Pan-African Parliament
Recommendations and Resolutions
Preamble and Preface
In PAP documents, we use PREAMBLE for text like
"The Pan-African Parliament,
Recalling X,
Noting of Y, etc."
We haven't yet found a use for PREFACE.
Body
The BODY in Recommendations usually begins as is highlighted in the example below.
The BODY in Resolutions usually begins as is highlighted in the example below.
Below are other examples of the BODY of Recommendations and Resolutions.
Documents without a preamble
Sometimes a document will not have a preamble. In such instances, the first keyword used should be BODY. Below is an example of one such document.
Hierarchical structure
Within the main body and in Schedules, content is often grouped under headings.
In legislation, the most common groupings are Chapters and Parts.
For PAP documents, which often don't specify what these headings are called, we use Divisions and Subdivisions.
The most common grouping of content is numbered paragraphs.
Keywords most commonly used
DIVISION
SUBDIVISION
PARA
SUBPARA
Notes for reviewers
Dates
The adoption date of a PAP document (resolution, recommendation or model law) is the last date of the session in which the document was presented.
AGP
General
Preface and preamble
In AGP treaty documents, we use PREAMBLE for text like "The African Union, Recalling X, Noting of Y, etc." We haven't yet found a use for PREFACE.
In the Preamble of a document, style the first word of each sentence (words highlighted in the image below) as it is in the source document. If such word it underlined, please remove the underlining and add italics to it.
Body
Documents without a preamble
Sometimes a document will not have a preamble. In such instances, the first keyword used should be BODY.
Hierarchical structure
Within the main body and in Schedules, content is often grouped under headings. The most common groupings are Chapters and Parts. For groupings not specified as either a Parts, Chapters or other keyword, we use Divisions and Subdivisions. The most common grouping of content is numbered articles or paragraphs .
Keywords most commonly used
CHAPTER/ PART
ARTICLE
PARA
SUBPARA
If a document is divided by headings for which a keyword exists, such as CHAPTER/PART, please use SUBPART for any further headings which do not have a keyword.
If a document is divided by headings for which a keyword does not exist, please use DIVISION and SUBDIVISION for those headings.
Things to look out for
Please change that appears at the end of a document to sentence case as demonstrated in the example below:
ADOPTED BY THE TWENTY-THIRD ORDINARY SESSION OF THE ASSEMBLY, HELD IN MALABO, EQUATORIAL GUINEA 27TH JUNE 2014 changes to :
Adopted by the twenty-third Ordinary Session of the Assembly, held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea 27th June 2014
Please take out underling in headings
Please fix spacing errors. Please add a comment in the margin ONLY if adding a space changes the meaning of the sentence.
Please remove signatures that appear at the end of documents.
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