Harvard is an author date style similar to the APA: in-text citation is author-date and a bibliography lists all of the references.
In-text citations

The Harvard style of referencing requires you to include the name of the author/s and the year of publication within the text. If you have used a direct quotation, you also need to include the page number/s. If you are summarising a large section of the book, you do not need to include page numbers.
References should be, whenever possible, placed at the end of a sentence (before the concluding punctuation). For example:
- ...as one writer put it 'the darkest days were still ahead' (Weston 1988, p.45).
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Alternatively, the author's surname may be integrated into the text, followed immediately by the year of publication in brackets. For example:
- Scholtz (1990, p.564) has argued that...
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If you reference a work written by 2 or 3 authors, all names should be included. For example:
- ...as discussed (Fessenden, Joan and Logue 1998).
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If there are four or more authors, write the first author's name followed by et al. For example:
- ...as the report suggested (Edwards et al 2004).
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If there is more than one reference by an author in the same year they are generally labelled in order of publication with a lower case letter. For example:
- ...outlined by Smith (2009a, p.45) and developed further in his report (2009b, p.23).
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If the author's name is unknown you should give the title of the article, book or webpage. For example:
- ...the worst election loss in the party's history (The Age, 1968, p.2).
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You may want to refer to a work that you haven't actually read but which has been summarised or discussed in somebody else's work. For example:
- There was further evidence to support researchers' views on genetic abnormalities in crops (White 2001, cited in Murray 2007, p.82).
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In the list of references at the end of your work only include the reference where you read about the original work. You cannot include details about the original study as you have not read it.
Book

Chapter in a book

E-book

- [Author] [Year of publication] [Title] [E-book collection] [URL] [AccessDate]
Corrie, M. (2009) A concise companion to Middle English literature. NetLibrary [Online]. Available at: http://www.netlibrary.com (Accessed: 21 June 2011). - If you have accessed a book using an e-book reader such as a Kindle, your reference should look like this:
[Author] [Year of publication] [Title] [e-book reader] [AccessDate]
Corrie, M. (2009) A concise companion to Middle English literature.Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell [Kindle version]. (Accessed: 21 June 2011).

