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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Statistics

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

Statistics

For print statistics, reference these in a similar way as the format used for Books.

The required elements for the reference are:

Author Surname, INITIALS. (Year) Title of bookEdition (if not the first). Place of publication: Publisher.

If available in electronic format only, reference in a similar way to Web pages.

The required elements for the reference are:

Name of organisation. (Year of publication or revision) Title of web page.  Place of publication: Publisher (if ascertainable). Available at: URL [Accessed date].

Reference List

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

Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs. (2017) Northern Ireland environmental statistics report 2017. (Issue 9). Belfast: DAERA.

In-text citation

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

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (2017) support the view that lifestyle choices impact the environment. 

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

People and households use significant levels of water, energy and food, this can exert pressure on the environment (Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs 2017).