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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Translated Books

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

Translated Books

The required elements for a book translated into another language are:

Author’s Surname, Initials. (Year of publication of translated version) Title of book. Edition (if not the first). Translated by Translator’s Initials. Surname. Place of publication: Publisher.

Reference List

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

Freud, S. (1954) The interpretation of dreams. Translated by J. Strachey. London: Allen and Unwin.

 

In-text citation 

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

Freud (1954) .... 

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

... (Freud 1954)