Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Page Numbers

Page numbers are required in the in-text citation for quotations plus other items such as illustrations, diagrams, or photographs in print publications. In the reference list, they are required, for example, for print journal article references (and for some online journal articles) and for references to author contributions in an edited work.

Reference List

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

Joint Formulary Committee. (2017) Brimonidine tartrate. British National Formulary, 74, September 2017- March 2018. London: BMJ Group and Pharmaceutical Press, 625-627.

(Note: p or pp is not used in the full reference at the end of your assignment, only in the in-text citations)

In-text citation

Example 1 - for quotations and where the author's name occurs naturally in the sentence:

Huggett (2016, p.298) stated that “Tidal ranges have a greater impact on coastal processes than tidal types”.

Example 2 - for quotations and where the author's name does not occur naturally in the sentence:

"The 1980s brought nursing research to a new level of development." (Polit and Beck 2010, p.8) 

Points to note: 

• Page numbers are required in the in-text citation for quotations plus other items such as illustrations, diagrams, or photographs in print publications.

• For in-text citations Use p. for a single page and pp. for a range of pages.

• If the pagination is absent on the source, e.g. on a web page, this detail is not needed. The exception to this would be for direct quotations from sources with no pagination. Click here for guidance.