Havard Referencing Guide

MBS Library Service

Guide to citing references
(Harvard system)

John Hynes
Feb 2010

MBS Library Service is part of the John Rylands University Library

1.

INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………….. 3

2.

CITING REFERENCES WITHIN THE TEXT…………………………… 3

2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
2.8
2.9
2.10
2.11
2.12

Single author…………………………………………………………………………... 3 - 4
Two authors………………………………………………………………………………... 4
Multiple authors…………………………………………………………………………… 4
Authors of different titles………………………………………………………………... 5
Several works by single author (different years)…………………………………… 5
Several works by single author (different years)…………………………………… 5
Author of a chapter within an edited text…………………………………………….. 6
Corporate authors………………………………………………………………………… 6
No author…………………………………………………………………………………… 6
No date………………………………………………………………………………….. 6 - 7
Citing secondary sources……………………………………………………………….. 7
How to quote portions of a published text…………………………………………… 7

3. CREATING THE LIST OF REFERENCES & BIBLIOGRAPHY………….. 8
3.1

Introduction……………………………………………………………………………….. 8

3.2
3.2.1
3.2.2
3.2.3
3.2.4
3.2.5
3.2.6

Books (single author)……………………………………………………………………. 8
Books (2,3 or 4 authors)…………………………………………………………………. 9
Books (more than 4 authors)…………………………………………………………… 9
Books which are edited………………………………………………………………… 10
Chapter(s) from an edited book………………………………………………………. 10
Multiple works by single author within the same year…………………………… 11
Electronic Books………………………………………………………………………… 11

3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13

Journal articles (print & electronic)… ………………………….............................. 12
Newspaper articles (print & electronic)…………………………………………….. 13
Annual reports (print & electronic)…………………………………………………... 14
Information from a website & online publications…………………………... 14 - 15
Conference proceedings / papers……………………………………………………. 15
Dissertations..……………………………………………………………………………. 15

References: The following guidelines are based upon the conventions provided by the University of Manchester’s Faculty of Humanities (2008) • Boatright (2006) argues that there are six questions that should be for a whistle-blowing case to be justified (Boatright 2006). • Hirst and Thompson (1999) identify enormous variations between country (Hirst and Thompson 1999). • Kotler et al (2005) argue that business markets are very similar to market sectors (Kotler et al 2005). • Hollensen (2004) and Palmer (2008) are in agreement about the