• Preface i

• General Principles ii

• Errors and Omissions iii

• 1. GENERAL RULES: MAIN TEXT 1

• Prose 1.1

• Language 1.1.1
• Punctuation 1.1.2
• Italics 1.1.3
• Emphasis 1.1.4
• Capital letters 1.1.5
• Naming parliamentarians, courts and judges 1.1.6
• Abbreviations 1.1.7

• Format 1.2

• Numbered and bulleted lists 1.2.1
• Quotations 1.2.2
• Numbers and dates 1.2.3

• 2. GENERAL RULES: FOOTNOTES AND THE CITATION OF SOURCES 2

• General 2.1

• General rules for citation 2.1.1
• The location of citation information 2.1.2
• Punctuation only when grammatically necessary 2.1.3

• Numbering and format of footnotes 2.2

• Numbering 2.2.1
• Position of footnote numbers in the main text 2.2.2
• Location of footnotes 2.2.3
• Format and content of footnotes 2.2.4

• Cross-referencing 2.3

• Subsequent references to a cited source 2.3.1
• Referencing other parts of your article 2.3.2

• 3. CASES 3

• Principles for citing cases 3.1
• Reported cases 3.2

• Case name 3.2.1
• Neutral citation 3.2.2
• Year 3.2.3
• Volume number 3.2.4
• Report series 3.2.5
• Starting page 3.2.6
• Court identifier 3.2.7
• Pinpoint 3.2.8
• Judge identifier 3.2.9
• Parallel citations 3.2.10
• Case history 3.2.11

• Unreported cases - neutral citation 3.3

• Case name and pinpoint 3.3.1
• Year 3.3.2
• Court identifier 3.3.3
• Judgment number 3.3.4

• Unreported cases - file number citation (Supreme Court and Court of Appeal) 3.4

• When to use 3.4.1
• Case name and pinpoint 3.4.2
• File number 3.4.3
• Date of judgment 3.4.4

• Unreported cases - file number citation (including the High Court and District Court) 3.5

• Case name and pinpoint 3.5.1
• Court abbreviation 3.5.2
• Registry 3.5.3
• File number 3.5.4
• Date of judgment 3.5.5

• Māori Land Court and Māori Appellate Court decisions 3.6

• Case name 3.6.1
• Block name 3.6.2
• Year of judgment 3.6.3
• Minute book reference 3.6.4
• Citation 3.6.5
• Pinpoint 3.6.6

• 4. LEGISLATION 4

• Statutes 4.1

• General form 4.1.1
• Imperial legislation 4.1.2
• Pre-1853 Ordinances 4.1.3
• Legislation from 1854 on 4.1.4

• Bills 4.2

• General form 4.2.1
• Select committee reports, and explanatory notes 4.2.2
• Supplementary order papers 4.2.3

• Regulations 4.3

• General form 4.3.1
• Court rules 4.3.2

• 5. OTHER OFFICIAL SOURCES 5

• Parliamentary materials 5.1

• Hansard 5.1.1
• Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives 5.1.2
• Submissions to select committees 5.1.3
• Standing Orders 5.1.4

• Government publications 5.2

• Cabinet documents 5.2.1
• Cabinet Manual 5.2.2
• New Zealand Gazette 5.2.3
• Law Commission reports 5.2.4
• Other reports 5.2.5

• Requests under the Official Information Act 1982 5.3

• 6. SECONDARY MATERIALS 6

• Texts 6.1

• General form 6.1.1
• Author 6.1.2
• Title 6.1.3
• Edition 6.1.4
• Publisher 6.1.5
• Place of publication 6.1.6
• Year 6.1.7
• Pinpoint citation 6.1.8

• Essays in edited books 6.2

• General form 6.2.1
• Essay author 6.2.2
• Essay title 6.2.3
• Citation of text 6.2.4
• Starting page 6.2.5
• Pinpoint 6.2.6

• Looseleaf texts 6.3

• General form 6.3.1
• Editor/author 6.3.2
• Title 6.3.3
• Looseleaf edition 6.3.4
• Publisher 6.3.5
• Pinpoint 6.3.6
• Service update/date of access 6.3.7

• Journal articles 6.4

• General form 6.4.1
• Author 6.4.2
• Title 6.4.3
• Year 6.4.4
• Volume 6.4.5
• Journal abbreviation 6.4.6
• Page reference 6.4.7
• Pinpoint 6.4.8

• Legal encyclopaediae 6.5

• General rule 6.5.1
• Reissues 6.5.2

• Laws of New Zealand 6.6

• Hardcopy edition 6.6.1
• Online edition 6.6.2

• Unpublished papers 6.7

• Theses and research papers 6.7.1
• Seminars, and papers presented at conferences 6.7.2

• 7. OTHER SOURCES 7

• Internet materials 7.1

• General rules 7.1.1
• Author 7.1.2
• Document title 7.1.3
• Year 7.1.4
• Website name 7.1.5
• Pinpoint 7.1.6
• Uniform Resource Locator (URL) 7.1.7
• Cases 7.1.8

• Newspaper articles 7.2

• General form 7.2.1
• Author 7.2.2
• Article title 7.2.3
• Newspaper title 7.2.4
• Place of publication 7.2.5
• Date 7.2.6
• Pinpoint 7.2.7

• Interviews 7.3

• General form 7.3.1
• Interviewee 7.3.2
• Position 7.3.3
• Interviewer 7.3.4
• Interview details 7.3.5
• Date 7.3.6
• Transcript details 7.3.7

• Press releases 7.4

• General form 7.4.1
• Author 7.4.2
• Title of press release 7.4.3
• Description of the document 7.4.4
• Date 7.4.5
• Pinpoint 7.4.6

• Speeches 7.5

• General form 7.5.1
• Speaker 7.5.2
• Title 7.5.3
• Location 7.5.4
• Date 7.5.5

• Letters and emails 7.6

• General form 7.6.1
• Author 7.6.2
• Recipient 7.6.3
• Subject 7.6.4
• Date 7.6.5

• 8. CASES FROM SPECIFIC JURISDICTIONS 8

• General rules 8.1
• Australia 8.2

• Official report series 8.2.1
• Court identifiers 8.2.2
• Neutral citations 8.2.3

• Canada 8.3

• Report series 8.3.1
• Court identifiers 8.3.2
• Neutral citations 8.3.3

• England and Wales 8.4

• Modern English reports 8.4.1
• Nominate reports 8.4.2
• Court identifiers 8.4.3
• Neutral citations 8.4.4
• Judge identifier 8.4.5

• Scotland 8.5

• Citation of cases reported in law reports 8.5.1
• Neutral citations 8.5.2

• United States 8.6

• Mode of citation 8.6.1
• Federal court decisions 8.6.2
• State court decisions 8.6.3

• 9. LEGISLATION FROM SPECIFIC JURISDICTIONS 9

• General rules 9.1
• Australia 9.2
• Canada 9.3
• United Kingdom 9.4

• Pre-1963 statutes 9.4.1
• Modern statutes (prior to the 1998 constitutional reforms) 9.4.2
• Modern statutes (post-1998) 9.4.3

• United States 9.5

• Codes 9.5.1
• Session laws 9.5.2
• Model laws 9.5.3
• Restatements of the law 9.5.4

• 10. INTERNATIONAL MATERIALS 10

• Treaties 10.1

• General form 10.1.1

• International Court of Justice and Permanent Court of International Justice 10.2

• General form 10.2.1

• International arbitral decisions 10.3

• General form 10.3.1

• United Nations materials 10.4

• General form for constitutive documents of the United Nations 10.4.1
• General form for other UN materials 10.4.2

• European materials 10.5

• General form for European Community cases 10.5.1
• European Community legislation 10.5.2
• General form for the European Court of Human Rights 10.5.3
• General form for the European Commission of Human Rights 10.5.4

• International Economic Materials 10.6

• General form for official documents of the WTO 10.6.1
• General form for official documents of the GATT 10.6.2

• APPENDICES App

• Appendix 1: Table of regnal years App 1

• Appendix 2: Court rules relating to style App 2

• Appendix 3: Additional style rules for university work App 3

• SUBJECT INDEX Index