The New Zealand Law Style Guide provides an authoritative and unified framework of styles used by New Zealand's courts, law schools, legal practitioners and legal publishers. The first edition, published in 2009, has quickly become the standard for the citation of New Zealand legal material. The second edition aims to build on the success of the first edition by: Providing new or expanded rules for a range of material not included in the first edition; Clarifying rules, including the cross referencing rules; and Simplifying the rules relating to the citation of international material. Some sections have been rewritten and reordered to make them easier to understand. As a result the Guide is much more user-friendly and the new edition is essential for anyone who has to cite legal materials.