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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Cochrane Library

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

Cochrane Library

The required elements for the reference are: 

Author Surname, INITIALS. (Year) Title of systematic review. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue. Art. No.: .doi:

Reference List

Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment:

Poort, H., Peters, M., Bleijenberg, G., Gielissen, M.F.M., Goedendorp, M.M., Jacobsen, P., Verhagen, S. and Knoop, H. (2017) Psychosocial interventions for fatigue during cancer treatment with palliative intent. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 7. Art. No.: CD012030. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012030.pub2

In-text citation 

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

Poort et al. (2017) found that.....

Example 2 - where the author's name does not occur naturally in the sentence

(Poort et al. 2017)

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