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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Official publications

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

Official publications

Official publications

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 full text 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 - where the author's name occurs naturally in the sentence

According to a report published by the Department of Health (2017) ... 

 

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

The Government has always been supportive of the media guidelines set up by the Samaritans on responsibly reporting suicides (Department of Health 2017).

Other points to note

Points to note: 

  • Follow the citation style, punctuation and letter case as provided on the full text of the original document.