Study Skills

Harvard Referencing

What is Harvard Referencing?:

Harvard is a type of referencing used primarily by University students to cite information sources. Two types of citation are included:

-In-Text Citation

-Reference Listing

In-Text Citation:

In-Text citation is used when directly quoting or paraphrasing a souce. They are contained in the body of work and contain a fragment of the full citation. Depending on the source type, some Harvard referencing may look like this:

"After that I lived like a young rajah in all the captials of Europe..." (Fitzgerald, 2004)

Reference Lists:

Reference Lists are located at the end of the work and display full citations for sources used in the assignment. Example:

Fitzgerald, F. (2004), The Great Gatsby. New York; Schribner.

The reference list includes:

-Name of the Author(s)

-Year Published

-Title

-City Published

-Publisher

-Pages Used

Generally, Harvard list references contain:

Last Name, First Initial. (Year Published). Title. City: Publisher, Page(s)

Citations are listed in alphabetical order by the Authors last name. 

First and not first edition citing:

Example (First Edition):

Patterson, J. (2005). Maximum Ride. New York: Little, Brown

Example (Not First Edition):

Dahl, R. (2004). Charlie and the chocolate factory. 6th ed. New York. Knopf.

If there are multiple Authors, they are listed in the citation in the order they appear on the document. The names are separated by 'and'.

Example:

Desikan, S. and Ramesh, G. (2006). Software testing. Bangalore, India: Dorling Kindersley, p.156.