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Harvard Referencing Guide- The Basics of Harvard Referencing:

Harvard Referencing Style is mainly used in humanities and social sciences. So if you are a professor or student related to these fields, you will have to use Harvard referencing for your citations.

How should I do Harvard Referencing?

Whenever you use someone else’ information, the author name should be mention in the text with complete details given in the reference list.
Whenever you use Harvard referencing, it will be under two broad areas:

• In-text Citations: Name of author mentioned after each sentence.
• End Text Citations: Complete details of the author and source of information (book, article, journal)

In-Text Citation in Harvard Referencing:

In-text Citation in Harvard referencing is same as done in APA (American Psychological Association) with a slight difference. It involves mentioning author’s name, publishing date according to the following format:

Single Author:

This includes using the surname of the author and publishing date of the source separated by a comma.

FORMAT	EXAMPLE
(Rodger, 2016)	More applied advertising methods for new products lead to increased sales. (Rodger, 2016)
Rodger (2016) states that….	Roger (2016) states that more applied advertising methods for new products lead to increased sales

Two Authors:

Name of the authors separated by “and” (as given in the example) followed by year of publication. (Amberson “&” is not used in it like in APA format).

FORMAT	EXAMPLE
Rodgers and (2016) states that….	Rodgers and Kipps (2016) states that more applied advertising methods for new products lead to increase in sales.
(Ronald and Kipps, 2016)	More applied advertising methods for new products lead to increase in sales. (Rodgers and Kipps, 2016)

Three or More Than Three Authors:

First author followed by et al. and year of publication.

FORMAT	EXAMPLE
Rodgers et al (2016) states that….	Rodgers et al (2019) states that more applied advertising methods for new products lead to increased sales.
(Ronald et al, 2019)	More applied advertising methods for new products lead to increased sales. (Ronald et al, 2019)

No Author:

If the author is anonymous, first 4-5 words of the title are used followed by the year of publication.

SOURCE	FORMAT	EXAMPLE
Book, report or brochure	Title should be in italic form.	(A Guide to marketing principles , 2016)
Article, Chapter, webpage	Title should be placed in quotation mark(“”)	(“A Guide To Marketing Principles”, 2016)

End Text Citation- Harvard Referencing Style:

End text citation for each source is done differently:

How to Harvard Reference a Research Paper?

It consist of:

• Author’s Name: Surname of authors followed by two initials.

Year of Publication

Title of the Article in italics

Journal Name

Here is a format and an example for you:

Format:
Author AA, Author BB. Year of publication. Title of the article. Name of the journal
Example:
Bayfield, A.H. and Crockett, W.H., 1955. Employee attitudes and employee performance. Psychological bulletin

How to Harvard Reference a Book?

Referencing of a book in Harvard Style is done as illustrated below:

It consist of the following elements:

• Author’s Name- Surname of all the authors followed by two initials.
• Year of Publication
• Title of the book In italic
• Place of Publication

Take the following format and example:

Format:
Name of authors, year of publication Title of the book (number of edition) Location.
Example:
McLeay EJ, William, DP & Pascale, GQ 1997, Advance marketing, Irwin, Sydney.

How to Harvard Reference a Book Chapter:

The chapter of the book is referenced in Harvard style as given below:

Following elements make up the Harvard Referencing:

• Author’s Name- Surname of the authors followed by two initials.
• Year of Publication
• Title of the chapter
• Title of the book In italics
• Number of pages cited
• Place of Publication

Format:
Name of author, Year of publication, Title of the book, pages number. Name of Publisher, Location
Example:
Grison, R 2001, ‘The new British workplace: High road or low road? Workplaces of the future, pp. 23-45. Macmillan Press, London.

How to Reference a Website in Harvard Style?

The referencing of Harvard website is slightly different from others with the following components:

• Name of the Author or Organization- Authoritative of the site.
• Site Date- When it was created
• Title of the webpage- In italics
• Date of webpage created
• Source of Data
• Available from- URL of the page from which information is cited
• Date of data extracted.

Format:
Author or Organization name, site date, Title of the webpage, Date of webpage, Source of Data, URL (Available from), date of Data extraction.
Example:
University Library 2016, University Library Home page, 28 March 2019, The University of London. Available from: http://www.library.uol.edu.uk. [31 May 2019].

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