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Harvard Referencing Guide (not including LHS): Contributor in a source document

 

 

Harvard Style of Citing References

If you refer in your text to a contributor to another source document, e.g. a specific chapter in an edited book, cite just the contributor.

For example, if you refer to a chapter written by Larissa Povey, which is in a collected work edited by Peter Dwyer, cite Povey in the in-text citation.

However, in your list of references you would list the contributor followed by 'In:' and give the details of the document containing the contribution in the normal format.

 

 

In text:

Povey (2019, p.45) describes how single mothers are more heavily impacted by welfare scrutiny and penalties…


 
 

In your list of references:

Contributing author's Surname, INITIALS. (Year of publication) Title of contribution. [Followed by] In: Surname, INITIALS., of author or editor of publication followed by ed. or eds. if relevant. Title of book. Place of publication: Publisher, Page number(s) of contribution.

e.g.

Povey, L. (2019) Punishment, powerlessness and bounded agency: exploring the role of welfare conditionality with ‘at risk’ women attempting to live ‘a good life’. In: Dwyer, P., ed. Dealing with welfare conditionality: implementation and effects. Bristol: Policy Press, 41-68.

Note that the title of the edited work and 'In:' are in italics, but not the chapter title.