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Harvard Referencing Guide (not including LHS): Test your skills

Ulster Harvard Tutorial

For help with referencing in the Ulster Harvard style, try this short referencing tutorial. You can also click on the image below to access it.. 

It provides general  referencing principles, guidance on quoting or paraphrasing,  and also contains several activities  to test you on your understanding. You'll receive feedback on these activities.

It is adapted, with permission, from Cardiff University's Information Literacy Resource Bank.

Session worksheets

It's one thing selecting the correct answer from a set of multiple choice options, but can you create a successful Ulster Harvard citation from scratch?  Try the worksheets below and see how you get on.


Quick Guide

Reference to a book
Alcock, C., Daly, G. and Griggs, E. (2008) Introducing social policy. 2nd ed.  Harlow: Pearson Education.

Reference to a contribution in an edited book
Downes, D. (2000) Crime and deviance. In: Taylor, S., ed. Sociology: issues and debates. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 231-252.

Reference to an article in a journal
Lawson, C.L. and Katz, J. (2004) Restorative justice: an alternative approach to juvenile crime. Journal of Socio-Economics, 33 (2), 175-188.

Reference to a newspaper article
Ford, R. (2008) Gang life is replacing family life, says woman police chief. Sunday Times, 2 July, 1.

Reference to web pages with an organisation as an author
Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2012) Understanding the riots. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.  Available from:http://www.jrf.org.uk/work/workarea/understanding-the-riots [Accessed 02 August 2021].

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