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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Emails

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

Emails

Emails

Person-to-person communications do not provide recoverable data and so are not included in the reference list.

You should therefore:

• Cite personal communications in the text only.

• Give initials as well as the surname of the communicator and provide as exact a date as possible.

It is advisable to include copies or summaries of these in Appendices. For example:

According to V. Pickert, the computer technology within cars permits easier tailor-made adaptions for disabled drivers (Personal communication, 18 May 2017, see Appendix 3).

Reference List

No reference in the reference list is necessary. In text citation only needed.

In-text citation 

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

According to V. Pickert (Personal communication, 18 May 2017, see Appendix 3), the computer technology within cars permits easier tailor-made adaptions for disabled drivers.

In-text citation

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

The computer technology within cars permits easier tailor-made adaptions for disabled drivers (V. Pickert, personal communication, 18 May 2017, see Appendix 3).