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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: UptoDate

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

UpToDate

The required elements for the reference are:

Author/s of topic. (Year of posting) Title of topic. In: Section editors. eds. UpToDate. Place of publication: Publisher. Available at: [Accessed date].

Reference List

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

Alper, E., O'Malley, T.A. and Greenwald, J. (2022) Hospital discharge and readmission. In: Givens, J. and Auerbach, A.D. eds. UpToDate. Waltham, MA: Wolters Kluwer Health. Available at: https://www.uptodate.com/contents/hospital-discharge-and-readmission [Accessed 3 March 2022].

 

In-text citation

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

Alper et al. (2022) suggests hospital discharge is sometimes hindered by lack of a suitable alternative setting.

 

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

 Hospital discharge is sometimes hindered by lack of a suitable alternative setting (Alper et al. 2022).

Other points to note

Points to note: 

  • Upt​oDate recommends that you cite the UpToDate topic as a chapter in a book titled UpToDate. There are no page numbers to cite, and the publication year for any topic should be the current year.