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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Quoting portions of published text

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

Quoting portions of published text

Where page numbers are available:

If you want to include text from a published work in your essay then the words must be included within double quotation marks, and may be introduced by such phrases as: The author stated that “……..” OR The author wrote that “……..”

If the quotation is less than a line, include it in the body of the text in double quotation marks.

Longer quotations should be indented, single-spaced and appear in double quotation marks.

Note: Quotations should be used appropriately and not excessively.

Reference List

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

Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety. (2011) Delivering excellence supporting recovery: a professional framework for mental health in Northern Ireland (2011-2016). Belfast: DHSSPS.

In-text citation

Example 1 - direct quotations, less than 1 line:

The Department of Health Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS 2011, p.vii) stated that mental health nurses “are highly valued by service users and carers”.

Reference List

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

Noorzad, R. and Raveshi, M. (2017) Mechanical Behavior of Waste Tire Crumbs–Sand Mixtures Determined by Triaxial Tests. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 351793–1802. 

In-text citation

Example 1 - longer quotation, indented, single-spaced and appearing inside double quotation marks:

A study on the environmental pollution and waste disposal benefits of using recycled vehicle tyres mixed with soil, clay or rock for landscape construction found that:

“Depending on the applications, scrap tires can be used as whole tires, shredded tire (usually 50–300 mm in size), tire chips (the wire removed from a tire and a nominal size of about 12–50 mm), granulated and ground rubber (particle size ranging from 12 to 0.425 mm and 2 to 0.425 mm, respectively).” (Noorzad and Raveshi 2017, pp.1794-1795).

 

 

Where page numbers are not available:

There may be occasions when you wish to quote from a source which does not contain page numbers. These would include a web page or an ebook with no pagination or an electronic journal article with no pagination (click here for an example from the journal PLoS ONE). On these occasions, use other information to help identify where the quote is located in the source - a paragraph number, section heading etc.

Reference List

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

Keating, C.T., Hickman, L., Geelhand, P., Takahashi, T., Leung, J., Monk, R., Schuster, B., Rybicki, A., Girolamo, T.M., Clin, E., Papastamou, F., Belenger, M., Inge-Marie Eigsti, I.- M., Cook, J. L., Kosaka, H., Osu, R., Okamoto, Y. and Sowden-Carvalho, S. Global perspectives on autism acceptance, camouflaging behaviours and mental health in autism spectrum disorder: a registered report protocol. PLoS ONE 16(12): e0261774. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261774

In-text citation

Example 1 - direct quotations, less than 1 line:

"There are differences in levels of autism acceptance, camouflaging, and mental health difficulties across country groups" (Keating et al. 2024, Discussion section, para. 5).

 

Other points to note

Points to note: 

  • Quotations should be used appropriately and not excessively.
  • In your in-text citation, note the us of p. and pp. Use p. when the quote is taken from a single page of the original source.   Use pp. when the quote is taken from more than one page of the original source.