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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Dictionaries

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

Dictionaries

The required elements for the reference are:

Where no author or editor details are available use the Short Title / Publisher:

Short Title / Publisher. (Year) Title of contribution. In: Title of source. Edition (if not the first). Place: Publisher, page numbers of contribution.

 

Reference List

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

Mosby. (2013) Myocardial infarction (MI). In: Mosby’s dictionary of medicine, nursing and health professions. 9th ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 1184-1185. 

In-text citation 

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

Mosby (2013) provided the definition for myocardial infarction...

In-text citation

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

Myocardial infarction (Mosby 2013) is defined as …

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