• Preface to the Third Edition i
• Preface to the Second Edition ii
• Preface to the First Edition iii
• Major Changes in the Third Edition iv
• General Principles v
• Errors and Omissions vi

• 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
• Currency 1.2.4

• 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
• Reference tags for cases 2.3.2

• 3 CASES 3

• DETERMINING HOW TO CITE A CASE 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 reference 3.2.8
• Judge identifier 3.2.9
• Parallel citations 3.2.10
• Case history 3.2.11

• NEUTRAL CITATION 3.3

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

• UNREPORTED CASES 3.4

• When to use 3.4.1
• Case name and pinpoint reference 3.4.2
• Court abbreviation 3.4.3
• Registry 3.4.4
• File number 3.4.5
• Date of judgment 3.4.6
• Minutes and rulings given during trial 3.4.7
• Judge identifier 3.4.8

• MĀORI LAND COURT AND MĀORI APPELLATE COURT DECISIONS 3.5

• Case name 3.5.1
• Block name 3.5.2
• Year of judgment 3.5.3
• Minute book reference 3.5.4
• Citation 3.5.5
• Pinpoint reference 3.5.6

• WAITANGI TRIBUNAL 3.6
• HISTORIC JUDGMENTS 3.7

• Historic judgments reported in newspapers 3.7.1
• Cases in New Zealand’s Lost Cases Project 3.7.2

• TRANSCRIPTS 3.8

• 4 LEGISLATION 4

• STATUTES 4.1

• General form 4.1.1
• Imperial legislation 4.1.2
• Pre-1854 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

• SECONDARY LEGISLATION 4.3

• Legislative instruments 4.3.1
• Instruments in their own right 4.3.2
• Court rules 4.3.3
• Other instruments or DINLIs 4.3.4
• Letters patent 4.3.5
• Proclamations 4.3.6

• 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
• Law Commission reports 5.2.3
• New Zealand Gazette 5.2.4
• Select committee reports 5.2.5

• REQUESTS UNDER THE OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT 1982 5.3
• PAPERS AND REPORTS 5.4

• 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 of publication 6.1.7
• Pinpoint reference 6.1.8
• eBooks 6.1.9

• ESSAYS AND CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS 6.2

• General form 6.2.1
• Author 6.2.2
• Title of essay or chapter 6.2.3
• Citation of text 6.2.4
• Starting page 6.2.5
• Pinpoint reference 6.2.6

• ONLINE COMMENTARIES AND LOOSELEAF TEXTS 6.3

• General form 6.3.1
• Editor or author 6.3.2
• Title 6.3.3
• Edition 6.3.4
• Publisher 6.3.5
• Pinpoint reference 6.3.6
• Service update and 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 number 6.4.5
• Journal abbreviation 6.4.6
• Starting page 6.4.7
• Pinpoint reference 6.4.8

• LEGAL ENCYCLOPAEDIAS 6.5

• Hardcopy edition 6.5.1
• Online edition 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

• FORTHCOMING WORKS 6.8
• REFERENCES TO A WORK REFERRED TO IN ANOTHER WORK 6.9

• 7 OTHER SOURCES 7

• INTERNET MATERIALS 7.1

• General rules 7.1.1
• Author 7.1.2
• Document title 7.1.3
• Date 7.1.4
• Website name 7.1.5
• Uniform Resource Locator (URL) 7.1.6
• Pinpoint reference 7.1.7
• Podcasts 7.1.8
• Cases 7.1.9
• Social media 7.1.10

• NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES 7.2

• 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 reference 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 document 7.4.4
• Date 7.4.5
• Pinpoint reference 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

• HISTORICAL MATERIALS 7.7

• Edited or translated texts 7.7.1
• Archived materials 7.7.2

• 8 CASES FROM SPECIFIC JURISDICTIONS 8

• GENERAL RULES 8.1
• AUSTRALIA 8.2

• 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

• 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

• Statutes 9.3.1

• 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
• United States Constitution 9.5.5

• 10 INTERNATIONAL MATERIALS 10

• TREATIES 10.1

• General form 10.1.1

• DECISIONS OF INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND TRIBUNALS 10.2

• International Court of Justice and Permanent Court of International Justice 10.2.1
• Modern international criminal courts and tribunals 10.2.2

• INTERNATIONAL ARBITRAL DECISIONS 10.3

• Reported decisions 10.3.1
• Unreported decisions 10.3.2

• UNITED NATIONS MATERIALS 10.4

• General form for constitutive documents of the United Nations 10.4.1
• General form for United Nations resolutions 10.4.2
• General form for other United Nations materials 10.4.3
• International Law Commission 10.4.4

• EUROPEAN MATERIALS 10.5

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

• INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC MATERIALS 10.6

• General form for official documents of the World Trade Organization (WTO) 10.6.1
• General form for official documents of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 10.6.2

• APPENDIX 1: IDENTIFIERS FOR NEW ZEALAND COURTS AND TRIBUNALS App 1
• APPENDIX 2: AUSTRALIAN OFFICIAL REPORT SERIES AND NEUTRAL CITATIONS App 2
• APPENDIX 3: CANADIAN OFFICIAL REPORT SERIES AND NEUTRAL CITATIONS App 3
• APPENDIX 4: ENGLAND AND WALES OFFICIAL REPORT SERIES AND NEUTRAL CITATIONS App 4
• APPENDIX 5: TABLE OF REGNAL YEARS App 5
• APPENDIX 6: COURT RULES RELATING TO STYLE App 6
• APPENDIX 7: ADDITIONAL STYLE RULES FOR UNIVERSITY WORK App 7

• INDEX Index