Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: No author or editor

If the author or editor cannot be identified use Anonymous or Anon.

Every effort should be made to establish the authorship if you intend to use this work as supporting evidence in an academic submission.

Anon. (Year) Title of article. Title of Journal, volume number(issue or part number, if present), page numbers of the article.

Reference List

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

Anon. (2017) Leaders respond to criticism of nurses. Nursing Standard, 31(50), 9.

In-text citation 

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

According to Anon. (2017)...

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

In a recent commentary on elderly care provision in nursing homes… (Anon. 2017)

Example 3 - Some publication types are cited using their title rather than any author. When you are making a citation from a newspaper or magazine, e.g. The Guardian; Economist, which has no identifiable author, the name of the publication is used instead of Anon.

Biotechnology is being used to produce artificial leather (Economist 2017).

Points to note: 

• Every effort should be made to establish the authorship if you intend to use this work as supporting evidence in an academic submission.

• Some publication types are cited using their title rather than any author. 

• When you are making a citation from a newspaper or magazine, e.g. The Guardian; Economist, which has no identifiable author, the name of the publication is used instead of Anon.