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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Command Papers

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

Command Papers

The required elements for the reference are:

Author/Organisation. (Year) Title. (Officially assigned number following format given on the document). Place of publication: Publisher, first page number if part of a bigger volume with continuous pages. Follow the citation style, punctuation and letter case as provided on the fulltext of the original document.

Reference List

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

Department of Health. (2017) Government response to the Health Select Committee's inquiry into suicide prevention. (Cm 9466). London: DH.

In-text citation 

Example 1 - 1st citation 

The Department of Health (DH 2017) .......

Example 2 - 2nd and later citations

In the DH (2017) paper.....