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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Books with two authors

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

Books with two authors

The required elements for the reference are:

Author Surname, INITIAL(S). and Author Surname, INITIAL(S). (Year) Title of book. Edition (if not the first). Place of publication: Publisher.

Reference List

Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment - 1st edition:

Gulliford, M. and Jessop, E. (2020) Healthcare public health: improving health services through population science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

In-text citation

Example 1 - where the author's name occurs naturally in the sentence

Gulliford and Jessop (2020) provide formulae for drug dosage calculations.

 

Reference List

Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment - 2nd or subsequent edition: 

Gatford, J.D. and Phillips, N.M. (2016) Nursing calculations. 9th ed. Edinburgh: Elsevier.

In-text citation

Example 1 - where the author's name does not occur naturally in the sentence

Body weight and surface area are important for drug dosage calculations (Gatford and Phillips 2016).

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