Journal Articles

There is no comma after the author, as with every secondary source.

Author “Title” (year) volume Abbrev start page at pinpoint.

The rule is the same as for law reports and follows from the same logic. A journal with its own running volume numbers takes round brackets. A journal where the year is the volume takes square brackets and has no volume number.

An issue number appears only where the journal does not paginate continuously through the volume. Most legal journals do, so most citations do not carry one.

Where an article title itself contains a case name, the case name stays italicised inside the quotation marks (r 6.4.3).

Pincite lets you italicise a run inside the title field rather than making you choose between the two.

Where the point you are relying on is in one of the article’s own footnotes, give the page or paragraph, then a comma, then the footnote number (r 6.1.8(d)). It reads “at 189, n 92”.

The Style Guide publishes no table of New Zealand journal abbreviations. r 3.2.5(a) points readers at the Legal Citation and Abbreviation database instead.

Pincite’s list is built from the abbreviations the guide itself uses in worked examples, so it is grounded but not complete. Where an abbreviation is not in the list, type it, and check the bracket yourself.