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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Report

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

Report

For print reports OR those you are viewing online in pdf format, the required elements for the reference are:

Author/Corporate author. (Year of publication) Title of report. Place of publication: Publisher. 

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

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (2011) developed a professional framework for nurses to deliver excellence in mental health nursing.

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

Nurses provide crucial mental health support in patients' recovery (Department of Health Social Services and Public Safety 2011).

For those you are viewing online as a webpage (not pdf), the required elements for the reference are:

Author/Corporate author. (Year of publication) Title of report. Place of publication: Publisher (if ascertainable). Available at: URL [Accessed date].

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.(2022) Green economy transition in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia: progress and ways forward. Paris: OECD.  Available at: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/green-economy-transition-in-eastern-europe-the-caucasus-and-central-asia_c410b82a-en/full-report.html [Accessed 13 November 2025].

Other points to note

Points to note:

  • If you are viewing a report online, but it is in pdf format, please reference as if print. Do not add a url or accessed date. However, if the report is online as a webpage do add the url and accessed date.
  • With a corporate author, capital letters are used for all words except for those which are articles (e.g. a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or, for, nor) and prepositions (e.g. on, at, to, by).
  • This format is applicable to organisational reports, not Law Reports
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