• Preface to the Third Edition
• 1 GENERAL RULES: MAIN TEXT
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• APPENDIX 2: AUSTRALIAN OFFICIAL REPORT SERIES AND NEUTRAL CITATIONS
• APPENDIX 3: CANADIAN OFFICIAL REPORT SERIES AND NEUTRAL CITATIONS
• APPENDIX 4: ENGLAND AND WALES OFFICIAL REPORT SERIES AND NEUTRAL CITATIONS
• APPENDIX 5: TABLE OF REGNAL YEARS
• APPENDIX 6: COURT RULES RELATING TO STYLE
• APPENDIX 7: ADDITIONAL STYLE RULES FOR UNIVERSITY WORK
• INDEX