Harvard

YOUR GUIDE TO

HARVARD STYLE REFERENCING

UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

INTRODUCTION TO THE HARVARD AUTHOR-DATE REFERENCING STYLE

The Harvard system is another name given to the Author-Date style of referencing and citation. Examples in this document have been based on the following text; Style manual for authors, editors and printers 2002, 6th edn, rev. Snooks & Co., Wiley, Milton, Qld

IN-TEXT REFERENCES

• Harvard uses the ‘author-date’ style of referencing. That is, in-text references (generally) appear in the following format: (Author’s Last Name Year of Publication, Page Number(s)) Example: (Austen 1813, p. 64) • You are also permitted to include the author’s name in a sentence, omitting it from the brackets. Example: Austen (1813, p. 64-67) observes that… • • If you are referring to an entire work, include only the author’s last name and year of publication in brackets. If you are referring to part of a work, you must include page numbers or their equivalent (see specific examples for more information). When citing a source you have not read yourself, but which is referred to in a source you have read, use the following method: Moore (as cited in Maxwell 1999, p. 25) stated that… Important: You would cite Maxwell, not Moore, in the Reference List Please Note: It is always preferable to cite the original source

REFERENCE LIST

• • • • The reference list should appear at the end of your work on a separate page Only include references you have cited in your work References should be listed in alphabetical order All references should have a hanging indent. That is, all lines of a reference subsequent to the first should be indented

Acknowledgement: The material contained in this document has been adapted, with permission of the authors, from the following publication: University of Canberra Library & Academic Skills Program 2010, A guide to referencing with examples in the APA & Harvard styles, 6th edn, University of Canberra Library, Canberra, viewed 20...