Harvard referencing style
As used in: Archaeology, Biochemistry (as well as Vancouver), Biology (as well as Vancouver), Economics, Environment, Health Sciences, HYMS (as well as Vancouver), Language and Linguistics, Management, Philosophy (as well as MLA), Politics, Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Theatre, Film and Televsion
Harvard is the most widely used referencing system and, as a result, there are a number of interpretations of this style. It is extremely important to check and follow your Department's specific regulations.
Harvard is a style based on name, date details for general in-text citations e.g. (Johnson, 1998) and name, date, page number for more specific in-text citation e.g. (Johnson, 1998, p.103) or (Johnson, 1998, pp. 103 – 122).
It is important to give a page number in a Harvard in-text citation in the following circumstances:
University of York department interpretations:
Archaeology:
Archaeology prefer students to use page numbers for all in-text citations unless students are referring to a complete book in a very general sense. Anything more specific should have a page number. Archaeology also require the following in-text citation punctuation: (Lee 2012, 236) for in-text citation with page number and (Lee 2012) for in-text citation without page number.
Environment:
Environment ask that for multi-authored sources, given in the reference list, that the first 10 named authors are listed before the use of 'et al.' to indicate additional named authors.
Language and Linguistic Science:
If using secondary citations (for example Smith (2000) cited in Jones (2010, p.5)) references should be given for both the sources mentioned.
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