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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Social Media Blogs

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

Social Media Blogs

Social Media Blogs

The required elements for the reference are:

Author/Username. (Year of posting) Title of posting. Blog name/Facebook/Twitter. Posting date. Available at: [Accessed date].

Reference List

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

Beer, G. (2017) SABR: radiotherapy that’s smart, fast and to the point. Cancer Research UK Science Update Blog. 21 August. Available at: http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2017/08/21/sabr-radiotherapy-thats-smart-fast-and-to-thepoint/ [Accessed 10 October 2017].

In-text citation 

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

This view was supported in the work of Beer (2017)

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

Because SABR beams are so intense, they must be extremely precise (Beer 2017)

 

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