diff --git a/format/index.md b/format/index.md
index 2726d9627..bcc930200 100644
--- a/format/index.md
+++ b/format/index.md
@@ -825,6 +825,13 @@ The above example should return the newest articles first. Any articles
created on the same date will then be sorted by their title in ascending
alphabetical order.
+If sorting is supported by the server and requested by the client via
+query parameter `sort`, the server **MUST** return elements of the
+top-level `data` array of the response ordered according to the criteria
+specified.
+The server **MAY** apply default sorting rules to top-level `data`
+if request parameter `sort` is not specified.
+
### Pagination
A server **MAY** choose to limit the number of resources returned in a response
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