Research

How to harvard reference

Although havard referencing seems daunting to begin with, once you know what to do its actually pretty simple.

You can reference pretty much anything you use, from books to websites or an email!

To reference a book you need 6 pieces of information:

• The Author
• The title of the book
• The year of Publication
• The place of Publication
• The publisher
• The edition

 

Once you have these pieces of information you lay them out like this:

 Author (Year). Title of Book. Place: Publisher. pages

 

 

Here are some examples:

 

Adair, J. (1988) Effective time management: How to save time and spend it wisely, London: Pan Books.

 



PEARS, R. & SHIELDS, G.J. (2010) Cite Them Right: The Essential Referencing Guide. 8thedition. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.




You can also reference book chapters, for this you need 9 pieces of information:

• The Author
• Title of Chapter
• Title of the book
• Editors of the book
• Year of publication
• Place of publication
• The Publisher
• The edition
• and the page numbers
 

Once you have this information you layout your reference like this:

 

Author. (Year). Title of Chapter. In: Editiors of Book Title of Book. Place: Publisher. pages.

 

 

For websites it can be a little harder to find the information required but if you looks in the right places you should be able to find it ok. You need 6 pieces of information:

• The Author
• The article title
• Name of the website
• Year of publication
• The full URL
• and the last date you visited

 

After gathering your information you lay it out like this:

 

Author. (year). Article Title. Available: Full URL. Last accessed Last date

 

 

For more help with this use this website:

 

http://www.neilstoolbox.com/index.htm

 

Not only is it really helpful, but it will also build your references for you.

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