to the wonderful worldof the

HARVARD REFERENCING

SYSTEM

ANSWER:Because U.A.L says

so

ANSWER:Because U.A.L says

so(and…because it is the standard,

universally accepted method of listing the sources you have used….)

Acknowledge debts to other writers.

Demonstrate the body of knowledge upon which your assignment is based.

Enable the reader(s) to locate your sources easily.

Citation

In the body of the text, you give your sources a ‘namecheck’

Example……….

“….Johnson (1963, p.12) points out that finding out how to include references in the text is only useful if you actually have some text….”

Reference List / Bibliography

Every source you have looked at (technically ‘references’ are different from a ‘bibliography’ - but in this case you could use either term, I think…)

Sources can be…..

Books, Journals, Newspapers, Websites, TV Programmes, DVDs, (any more?)

For a Book (the easiest option) You include……

AUTHOR (surname, then initials). TITLE. CITY OF PUBLICATION : PUBLISHER, DATE OF PUBLICATION.

Example

Johnson, T. Why I Hate the Harvard System. London : Thames & Hudson, 1963.

Other sources are not so straightforward….

…but as long as you bear in mind the overall ‘philosophy’ - and try to keep a consistent ‘system’ to your references - you should be OK.

Other sources are not so straightforward….

…but as long as you bear in mind the overall ‘philosophy’ - and try to keep a consistent ‘system’ to your references - you should be OK.

For Example, an Article in a Magazine

AUTHOR(s). ‘TITLE OF ARTICLE’. NAME OF MAGAZINE. VOLUME No. : ISSUE No. DATE. PAGE NUMBERS

Other sources are not so straightforward….

…but as long as you bear in mind the overall ‘philosophy’ - and try to keep a consistent ‘system’ to your references - you should be OK.

For Example, an Article in a Magazine

Johnson. T. ‘Referencing is Rubbish’. Education Today. Vol. 12 : Issue 5. May 1963. pp.23-30.

Website

AUTHOR / EDITOR. ‘TITLE OF SITE’. LOCATION OF SERVER : MAINTAINER OF SITE. URL (the ‘www.’ bit). DATE CREATED. DATE ACCESSED (i.e: by you…)

Website

AUTHOR / EDITOR. ‘TITLE OF SITE’. LOCATION OF SERVER : MAINTAINER OF SITE. URL (the ‘www.’ bit). DATE CREATED. DATE ACCESSED (i.e: by you…)

EXAMPLE

Johnson T. ‘Stop all this referencing nonsense now!’. Coventry : University of Warwick. www.harvardispants.co.uk. Created June 1997; accessed March 2014.

AUTHOR (surname, then initials). TITLE. CITY OF PUBLICATION : PUBLISHER, DATE

OF PUBLICATION.

So… what is the equivalent information for…

A TV Programme ?

Remember the ‘format’….

Or an Art Exhibition ?