Footnote number: Put a footnote number in superscript font size ten within the text (in-text citation) to show when you are using another person's ideas or words. This number directs the reader to a footnote at the bottom of the page, containing information about the work you are citing.
Footnote citation: The first time a book chapter is cited in your footnotes, refer to it in full in the same format as your bibliography entry.
Pinpoint reference: After the starting page of the chapter, an optional pinpoint reference to a page or a paragraph number within the chapter can follow this. Paragraph numbers are enclosed within square brackets.
Subsequent references: Any subsequent references to this item may be formatted according to the cross-referencing rules in the NZLSG at Rule 2.3.
See NZLSG Rule 2.2 for more footnote formatting information.
Whether the “public opinion” element still remains as part of the honest opinion defence is a matter of debate.1
Author of Chapter "Title of chapter" in Editor (ed) Book Title (Edition, Publisher, Place of Publication, Year of Publication) Starting page of essay at Optional Pinpoint Citation.
1 Ursula Cheer “Defamation” in Stephen Todd (ed) Todd on Torts (9th ed, Thomson Reuters NZ, Wellington, 2023) 935 at [15.8.1].
2 Robin Cooke "Tort and Contract" in PD Finn (ed) Essays on Contract (Law Book Company, Sydney, 1987) 222 at 112.
This section applies to citations to essays or chapters within unedited or edited books.
Note: If you are citing a book in general (i.e. you are not referring to a particular chapter), reference the whole book.
Order: Book chapters are included with other book sources in the bibliography, alphabetically by the chapter author's surname (last name).
Books should NOT be categorised by jurisdiction.
Author of chapter and chapter title: Provide the author of the chapter followed by the chapter title in double quotation marks.
For more information on bibliography format and style, see General information - basics of referencing.
Provide the book title in italics preceded by the word 'in'.
Author Name of Chapter "Title of Chapter" in Book Title (Edition, Publisher, Place of Publication, Year of Publication) Starting page of chapter.
John Finnis “Practical Reason’s Foundations” in Reason in Action: Collected Essays Volume 1 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011) 19.
Provide the name(s) of the editor(s) with the abbreviations (ed) or (eds) preceded by the word 'in'.
Follow NZLSG Rule
6.1.2(g)
for citing books with editors.
For more information, refer to NZLSG
Rule 6.2. Essays and chapters in edited books.
Author Name of Chapter Title of chapter in Editor (ed) Book Title (Edition, Publisher, Place of Publication, Year of Publication) Starting page of chapter.
Robin Cooke "Tort and Contract" in PD Finn (ed) Essays on Contract (Law Book Company, Sydney, 1987) 222.