How do you cite a government treaty series citation (e.g., U.N.T.S.)?

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When citing a government treaty series, you include the treaty’s title and article, the treaty date, then the official treaty-series locator, with the year in parentheses at the end. The key is to signal the precise place in the official series where the treaty can be found, and then show the year in parentheses.

The best choice uses that structure: it places the treaty name and article, the date, then a treaty-series locator (the official series citation) followed by the year in parentheses. This keeps the locator clearly identified as the official treaty series, without spelling out the series name or treating it as a statute citation. In practice you would replace the placeholder with the actual series citation (such as 333 U.N.T.S. 3). The other options either omit the official series locator, mislabel the source as a statute, or spell out the series name without providing the precise UNTS entry, which is not the standard locator.