Many official government documents are published in the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives (AJHR). It will generally only be necessary to cite to the AJHR in the case of older documents. Many more recent documents, such as select committee reports, which are published in the AJHR, are also available as freestanding documents. Where a document is so available, it may be cited as such using the appropriate citation format.

Selected volumes of the AJHR have been digitised and are available from the National Library’s website at <www.atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs>.

The citation method for such documents is as follows:

Eg Geoffrey Palmer “A Bill of Rights for New Zealand: A White Paper” [1984–1985] I AJHR A6 at 29.

The author is the department, organisation, select committee or officer identified in the publication. Give the title in full and in double quotation marks.

If the journal spans multiple years, these should be named. The year of the journal also acts as the volume number and so is within square brackets. If the journal is bound in composite volumes for that year, the volume number should be given in roman numerals.

If a paragraph number is available for a pinpoint reference, this should be used rather than a page number and placed inside square brackets.