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The Harvard Style:
A Guide to Referencing Sources
The Harvard Style is Coventry University’s recommended format for documenting all the sources you use in your academic writing.
The golden rule when documenting sources is to be transparent.Ask yourself whether you could find the passage / image / publication / website address with the information you have provided
The Centre for Academic Writing provides an online booklet, of which this is an extract. For the latest version,visit www.coventry.ac.uk/caw and follow the ‘Harvard Style’ links.
The Harvard Style is a simple system used internationally by scholars and researchers. This style has two elements:
In-text citations
In the body of your paper, give the surname of the author and the date of publication. Also give the page number if you quote a passage directly or if you paraphrase (put the idea into your own words).
List of References
At the end of your paper, give full publication or internet information so that a reader can easily locate your sources
In-text Citations
You must cite every source you refer to in the main body of your writing. This is known as giving in-text citations.
Your in-text citations must state the author or website producer and the date of publication, plus the page number if you quote or paraphrase.
If you summarise what an author has argued in an entire book or article you do not need to give the page numbers.
1. If you have mentioned the author’s name in your writing, give the date and page number in brackets.
For example: Shah maintains that in recent years Coventry has become Britain’s most important industrial city (2005:66).
2. If a source has multiple authors, give all their names in the order stated in the source, up to three authors. (No page number is given in this case because the argument is made throughout the source).
For example: Cox, Patel, and Pavliotis predict that Britain will adopt the euro in the future
A Guide to Referencing Sources
The Harvard Style is Coventry University’s recommended format for documenting all the sources you use in your academic writing.
The golden rule when documenting sources is to be transparent.Ask yourself whether you could find the passage / image / publication / website address with the information you have provided
The Centre for Academic Writing provides an online booklet, of which this is an extract. For the latest version,visit www.coventry.ac.uk/caw and follow the ‘Harvard Style’ links.
The Harvard Style is a simple system used internationally by scholars and researchers. This style has two elements:
In-text citations
In the body of your paper, give the surname of the author and the date of publication. Also give the page number if you quote a passage directly or if you paraphrase (put the idea into your own words).
List of References
At the end of your paper, give full publication or internet information so that a reader can easily locate your sources
In-text Citations
You must cite every source you refer to in the main body of your writing. This is known as giving in-text citations.
Your in-text citations must state the author or website producer and the date of publication, plus the page number if you quote or paraphrase.
If you summarise what an author has argued in an entire book or article you do not need to give the page numbers.
1. If you have mentioned the author’s name in your writing, give the date and page number in brackets.
For example: Shah maintains that in recent years Coventry has become Britain’s most important industrial city (2005:66).
2. If a source has multiple authors, give all their names in the order stated in the source, up to three authors. (No page number is given in this case because the argument is made throughout the source).
For example: Cox, Patel, and Pavliotis predict that Britain will adopt the euro in the future
Citations: For example: Shah maintains that in recent years Coventry has become Britain’s most important industrial city (2005:66). For example: Cox, Patel, and Pavliotis predict that Britain will adopt the euro in the future (2004). For example: Fletcher et al suggest that in this century, global climate change has caused billions of pounds worth of damage (2005:88). For example: The Lanchester Library is a highly environmentally friendly building (Coventry University 2005). ---. (2002a) Signification and Psychology in Education. London: Routledge --- Biggs, G. (2000) Gender and Scientific Discovery. 2nd ed. London: Routledge An article, essay, or chapter written by a particular author in an edited book