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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Census

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

Census

The required elements for the reference are:

Corporate author. (Year of publication) Title of census. Place of publication: Publisher. Available at: URL [Accessed on date].

Reference List

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

Office for National Statistics. (2020). Population estimates for UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland: Mid-2019. London: ONS. Available at:https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/bulletins/annualmidyearpopulationestimates/mid2019estimates [Accessed 22 June 2021].

In-text citation 

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

The Office for National Statistics (2020) suggest that the population of the UK grew at its slowest rate in 15 years between mid 2018 and mid 2019.

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

In mid 2019 the population of the UK was estimated to be over 66 million (Office for National Statistics 2020).

Other sources which may be useful