Create a spot-on reference in NZLSG
What is New Zealand Law Style Guide?
New Zealand Law Style Guide (often referred to simply as NZLSG or as NZ Law Style Guide) is a style manual developed by the New Zealand Law Foundation. The manual’s latest edition to date is the 3rd ed.
As can be seen from the style’s name, it is primarily designed for New Zealand students and scientists involved in legal research.
New Zealand Law Style Guide Reference Generator by Grafiati: how to cite sources automatically
The NZLSG reference generator by Grafiati allows citing laws, court cases, and secondary sources (books, journal articles, websites, reports, and so on) of both New Zealand and foreign jurisdictions in compliance with the requirements of the New Zealand Law Style Guide (3rd ed.).
Our New Zealand Law Style Guide generator has the following prominent features:
- The citations of court cases and laws are adapted to the common practices of New Zealand.
- The legal sources of other jurisdictions can be identified conveniently thanks to the implementation of a common referencing scheme.
- The New Zealand Law Style Guide citation generator creates both bibliographic references and footnotes. You can generate footnotes for one or multiple sources stating the particular pages you are referring to and insert them into your paper.
- Our NZ Law Style Guide generator takes into account the tiny nuances for citing secondary sources. For example, the journal titles in your references will be abbreviated according to the Legal Citations of Aotearoa New Zealand and the Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations.
- You can easily switch between different citation styles, ordering schemes, and so on.
To start using our NZLSG citation generator, select the type of source you would like to cite from the top widget on this page.
Examples of New Zealand Law Style Guide references
Here are the examples of references and footnotes for some of the most widespread types of sources in accordance with the requirements of the NZ Law Style Guide (3rd ed.):
Law
Reference:
Copyright Act 2004.
Footnote:
Copyright Act 2004, s 12.
Court case
Reference:
R v Smith 2004 SCC 14, [2004] 1 SCR 385.
Footnote:
R v Smith 2004 SCC 14, [2004] 1 SCR 385 at [50].
Book
Reference:
Andrew Stockley and Michael Littlewood The New Zealand Supreme Court: The First Ten Years (LexisNexis, Wellington, 2015).
Footnote:
Andrew Stockley and Michael Littlewood The New Zealand Supreme Court: The First Ten Years (LexisNexis, Wellington, 2015) at 34.
Journal article
Reference:
Sheilah L Martin “Equality Jurisprudence in Canada” (2019) 17 NZJPIL 127.
Footnote:
Sheilah L Martin “Equality Jurisprudence in Canada” (2019) 17(2) NZJPIL 127 at 129.
Website
Reference:
Vince Siemer “New Zealand Judiciary’s Assault on Information Escalates” (17 February 2020) Kiwisfirst <www.kiwisfirst.com/new-zealand-judiciarys-assault-on-information-escalates/>.
Footnote:
Vince Siemer “New Zealand Judiciary’s Assault on Information Escalates” (17 February 2020) Kiwisfirst <www.kiwisfirst.com/new-zealand-judiciarys-assault-on-information-escalates/>.