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Harvard Style of Citing References

 

The general principles are laid out below, but the basic rule is that within your text, sources of information should be identified and relate to the entry in the list of references, which itself should provide enough information for the original source to be identified and found by the reader of your work.

Books    

Single named author

 

Two named authors

Three or more named authors

No named author (anonymous)

Author (or group of authors) has more than one reference in a single year

 

More than one source is cited

 

Corporate body (Company or organisation)

 

Journal Articles  

Journal articles (including journal articles accessed via Library databases)

 

Other Sources    

Contributor in a source document (e.g. edited book)

 

Source directly quoted in another source (secondary referencing)

 

Newspaper article

 

Conference paper

 

Unpublished conference paper (including poster presentation)

  Pre-publication (In Press) - work accepted for publication but not yet published  

Thesis or dissertation

 

Tables, figures, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, film stills or screenshots

 
Legal/Government*    Parliamentary, Government and Official Publications  
Legal Sources  
EU/International*     EU Treaties, Directives and Regulations  
  European Court of Human Rights (Council of Europe)  
  International Treaties and Conventions  
  * For more legal reference types, see the OSCOLA guide  

Direct Quotations    

Quotations

  Secondary Contributions or Quotations  

Many other examples are provided in the Full Harvard Guide