Harvard Citation Guideline
Harvard Citation Guideline
Overview
Other materials
Referencing
Acts of Parliament (includes bills)
Intellectual honesty and plagiarism
Australian Bureau of Statistics
About the Harvard UWS style
Brochure
In-text citation: Referencing
sources within the text Government report
Reference list Government report (online)
Electronic items Image on the Internet
Referencing secondary sources Lecture (unpublished) / personal
communication
Different works of the same author
and same year Legal authorities (cases)
Microfiche / microfilm document
Books, book chapters and brochures Patent/ Trademark (electronic
database)
Single author Podcast (from the Internet)
Two or three authors Standard
Four to six authors Study guide
Seven or more authors Thesis / dissertation
No author (incl. dictionary or Tutorial / lecture handout
encyclopaedia)
Video recording, television
Corporate author / authoring body program or audio recording
Edited book Video or audio (from the Internet)
Chapter or article in book Web page / document on the
Chapter or article in an edited Internet
book
E-book
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Referencing
Referencing acknowledges the sources that you use to write your essay or assignment paper.
Please see the section of this guide regarding intellectual honesty and plagiarism.
In-text citations are used throughout your writing to acknowledge the sources of your
information. The full references for the citations are then listed at the end of your assignment
paper in the Reference list.
It is important to first consult your unit outline, lecturer or tutor for the preferred citation style
for each unit you undertake.
Students are referred to the University of Western Sydney Calendar "Misconduct - Student
Academic Misconduct Policy" section for basic definitions and University policies relating to
intellectual honesty, cheating and plagiarism.
The Harvard UWS style is one of a number of styles of referencing or bibliographic citation
that is used widely for academic writing. It is an author-date system e.g. (Mullane 2006).
This guide covers basic explanations and examples for the most common types of citations
used by students. This citation guide is based on the author-date system used in the Style
manual for authors, editors and printers (Commonwealth of Australia, 2002), an Australian
government publication which is available at all UWS libraries. Please consult this publication
for further examples and explanation:
Commonwealth of Australia 2002, Style manual for authors, editors and printers, 6th edn, rev.
Snooks & Co., John Wiley & Sons Australia, Brisbane.
Throughout the text of your paper you need to acknowledge the sources you used to write
your paper. Whenever you present a statement of evidence such as a quote, or when you use
someone else's ideas, opinions or theories in your own words (paraphrasing), you must
acknowledge your sources. Some examples of how cite sources within your paper are given
below.
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If you use the name of the author(s) in your writing, place the year of publication of the work in
parentheses after the authors name.
If you refer to a work in the text of your paper, place the author's last name and the year of
publication of the work in parentheses at the end of the sentence.
The research conclusively proved a correlation between the results (Mullane 2006).
Note: When you summarise the general idea of a source in your own words, you must cite the
author and year of publication of the work as shown below. Harvard UWS style does not
require you to provide the page number unless you use a direct quote, however if you
paraphrase or summarise a specific paragraph or section you should consider including the
page number.
If you directly quote fewer than 30 words, enclose the quotation by single quotation marks
within the text. The year of publication of the work along with the page number(s)* of the
quote should be provided in parentheses.
* When there are no page numbers available, use a section name if it is given in the text e.g.
Jones (2008, sec. 1). Use abbreviations such as vol. (volume), vols (volumes), sec. (section),
secs (sections). If no other identifying information is available use the abbreviation n.p. (no
page).
If any similar qualitative research is to be undertaken in the future, then stringent controls
should be put in place to ensure such statistical anomalies do not occur through lack of
When you use more than one source for a statement that you write, the citation can be
presented using semi-colons between works as follows in alphabetical order by surname:
and a number of studies have shown identical results (Sanders 2008; Smith 2009).
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Reference list
A reference list includes details of the sources cited in your paper. It starts on a separate
page at the end of your assignment paper and is titled References. Each item cited in the
reference list must have been cited in your paper. All sources appearing in the reference list
must be ordered alphabetically by surname.
All sources that you cite in your writing are listed in detail at the end of your document in a
reference list, with the exception of all personal communications, as well as dictionary entries,
newspaper articles or encyclopaedia entries where no author is ascertainable. These sources
are cited in-text only.
You may sometimes need to include sources that are not cited in your paper but which
supported your research. In Harvard UWS style, when you list non-cited sources and cited
sources, the consolidated list is called a Bibliography. As with a reference list, the items
should be listed in alphabetical order.
The reference list should be single spaced, with one line space between references and no
indentation.
Italics is the preferred format for titles of books, journals and videos. Article and chapter titles
are put in single quotation marks but are not italicised.
Capitalisation in the Harvard UWS style is very specific and is kept to a minimum. The
following general rules apply:
Book titles - capitalise the first letter of the first word of the title, but not the first letter of the
first word after a colon.
e.g. Ageing and aged care in Australia
Brave new brain: conquering mental illness in the era of the genome
Journal and newspaper titles - capitalise first letter of each word except and, of etc.
e.g. Journal of Educational Psychology
Article, chapter or section titles - enclose the title in single quotation marks and capitalise only
the first letter of the first word.
e.g. Personal resilience as a strategy for surviving and thriving in the face of workplace
adversity: a literature review
Pronouns, acronyms and abbreviations that are normally capitalised should be capitalised in
the reference list and citations. For further information on capitalisation see examples on the
following pages for each reference type and refer to pages 190-191 of the Style manual for
authors, editors and printers (Commonwealth of Australia, 2002).
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References
Andreasen, NC 2001, Brave new brain: conquering mental illness in the era of the genome,
Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Davis, M, Charles, L, Curry, MJ, Shanti, P, Prasad, S, Hewings, A et al. 2003, Challenging
spatial norms, Routledge, London.
Este, J, Warren, C, Connor, L, Brown, M, Pollard, R & OConnor, T 2008, Life in the
clickstream: the future of journalism, Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance, viewed 27 May
2009, <http://www.alliance.org.au/documents/foj_report_final.pdf>.
Ferres, K 2001, Idiot box: television, urban myths and ethical scenarios, in I Craven (ed.),
Australian cinema in the 1990s, Frank Cass, London.
Storey, KB 2004, Functional metabolism regulation and adaptation, John Wiley & Sons,
Hoboken, NJ, viewed 4 April 2009, NetLibrary database.
Wentworth, WC 1984, Why we need a permanent base on the moon, The Sydney Morning
Herald 24 January, p. 11, viewed 3 April 2009, Sydney Morning Herald Archives database.
Electronic items
When referencing electronic resources from a database you need to include the database
name after the date that the item was viewed. If it is not clear that the source is a database,
include the word database after the name. References to items that are publicly assessable
via the Internet should include the date viewed and exact URL. See examples below for
further detail.
Sometimes you may want to quote or paraphrase a source (A) that is referred to within
another source (B). You should not cite source A as though you read it from the original work.
You must cite source A through the secondary source (B) from which you actually read it.
For example, the book you are using is written by Smith who quotes another author called
Jones. In your essay you wish to use Jones idea. In-text you should acknowledge both the
primary source (Jones) and secondary source (Smith) as follows:
Jones (cited in Smith 2009) agreed that the experiment failed to confirm this hypothesis.
or
The experiment failed to confirm this hypothesis (Jones, cited in Smith 2009).
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In text citations
If a work has one, two or three authors cite all names every time the reference occurs in text.
If a work has more than three authors include only the first author followed by et al (meaning
and others) e.g (Schneider et al. 2007). If two different references shortened in this manner
become the same include as many names as is necessary to distinguish them.
Reference list
In the reference list all authors should be included except when there are 7 or more authors.
In these instances give the first six authors and abbreviate the remaining authors to et al.
E.g. Davis, M, Charles, L, Curry, MJ, Shanti, P, Prasad, S, Hewings, A et al. 2003
See examples under Books, book chapters and brochures
If you have references for multiple works by the same author, these are distinguished by the
year of publication. However, if you have references to works of the same author published in
the same year, differentiate the works by including a, b or c etc after the year when citing
in-text and in the references list. E.g.
Reference list Jones, C 1999a, Forming hypotheses, University of Western Sydney, Penrith.
Jones, C 1999b, Assessing hypotheses, University of Western Sydney, Penrith.
Jones, C 2008, Developing hypotheses, University of Western Sydney, Penrith.
Note: The earliest publication date should be listed first in the reference list.
Single author
Reference list Andreasen, NC 2001, Brave new brain: conquering mental illness in the era of
the genome, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
In-text citation Andreasen (2001) stated that
or
It is suggested that (Andreasen 2001).
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Reference list Schneider, Z, Whitehead, D & Elliott, D 2007, Nursing and midwifery research:
methods and appraisal for evidence-based practice, 3rd edn, Elsevier
Australia, Marrickville, NSW.
Note: Within each entry author names should be listed in the order in which
they appear on the source or as displayed on the title page
Reference list Belenky, M, Clinchy, B, Goldberger, N & Tarule, J 1986, Womens ways of
knowing, Basic, New York.
Note: When citing more than three authors in text, give the name of the first
author and abbreviate the others to et al. (meaning: and others).
Reference list Davis, M, Charles, L, Curry, MJ, Shanti, P, Prasad, S, Hewings, A et al. 2003,
Challenging spatial norms, Routledge, London.
Note: If a book has more than six authors, give the first six authors and
abbreviate the remaining authors to et al. (meaning: "and others").
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In-text citation According to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (2004) figures
for 2004
This can be seen (Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia 2004).
Note: Abbreviate long names after providing in full on first occurrence.
Edited book
Reference list Craven, I (ed.) 2001, Australian cinema in the 1990s, Frank Cass, London.
Reference list Knowles, MS 1986, Independent study, in Using learning contracts, Jossey-
Bass, San Francisco, pp. 89-96.
Note: You do not need to specify the chapter names from a book that is written
in its entirety by the same authors, however if you wish to emphasise the use
of one chapter it would be given in the above format. Please note that page
numbers are not mandatory, however providing these can assist your reader to
locate the source.
Reference list Ferres, K 2001, Idiot box: television, urban myths and ethical scenarios, in
I Craven (ed.), Australian cinema in the 1990s, Frank Cass, London, pp.
175-88.
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E-book
Reference list Storey, KB 2004, Functional metabolism: regulation and adaptation, John
Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, viewed 4 April 2009, NetLibrary database.
Note: If an e-book is publicly accessible via the Internet, include the URL
instead of database name. e.g. viewed 4 April 2009, <http://www>
If the e-book is edited, include editor information as in the Edited book
example.
Note: DOI = Digital Object Identifier. If a DOI number is available for the
journal article it can be included in the reference.
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Systematic reviews
Reference list Osborn, DA, & Sinn, JKH 2006, Soy formula for prevention of allergy and food
intolerance in infants, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, no. 4, art.
no.: CD003741, viewed 19 May 2009, Cochrane Library database,
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003741.pub4.
In-text citation Osborne and Sinn (2006) stated that
or
It has been found that(Osborne & Sinn 2006).
Other materials
In-text citation Section 3 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cwlth) states that
or
Corporations must (Corporations Act 2001 (Cwlth), s.3 )
Note: Titles of Acts and other legislation should be cited exactly as they
appear, and punctuation should not be altered to suit the referencing style.
After the first citation, the date can be omitted from the citation.
For more information on different types of ABS sources see How to cite ABS
sources e.g. tables, maps. Ensure you adhere to the formatting for Harvard
UWS style.
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Brochure
Reference list University of Western Sydney 2009, Transport access guide: Penrith Campus,
UWS, Penrith, NSW.
Government report
Reference list National Commission of Audit 1996, Report to the Commonwealth
Government, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
In-text citation The Department of Health and Ageing (2008) reported that
or
was shown in the report (Department of Health and Ageing 2008).
Reference list An offering to the ocean in La Punta, Peru 2009, image, Sydney Morning
Herald, 19 May, viewed 25 May 2009, <http://www.smh.com.au/snapshots/>.
In-text citation In the image (An offering to the ocean in La Punta, Peru 2009) it can be
Reference list Note: When you cite information spoken about in a lecture or expert that has
gone unpublished it is treated as a personal communication and you do not
need to provide a reference list entry because there is no recoverable data. All
details are provided in the text. Ensure that you have the authors permission
to include the citation.
It is advisable to use published primary sources rather than lectures as
references in your paper.
In-text citation found that neutrons are dangerous (H Dwyer [University of Western
Sydney] 2009, H0379 lecture, 10 January).
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In-text citation The case, Jones v. Sherlock (2009) NSWSC 246, showed that
Note: Complete URLs should be given for publicly accessible databases; for
databases requiring login, use database name.
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Standard
Reference list Standards Australia Online 2006, Glass in buildings: selection and installation,
AS 1288-2006, amended 31 January 2008, viewed 19 May 2009, SAI Global
database.
Note: For standards not retrieved from an electronic database, replace online
database information with publisher information statements.
In-text citation The standard published by Standards Australia Online (2006) entitled Glass in
buildings: selection and installation states that
or
stated that glass in buildings must be (Standards Australia Online 2006).
Study guide
Reference list Note: It is advisable to use published primary sources rather than
tutorial/lecture handouts as references in your paper.
Hickson, J 2009, HCR56 images and the mind: study guide, Spring session,
University of Western Sydney, Penrith.
Note: When you do not know the details of the author use the details of the
university as the publisher e.g.
University of Western Sydney 2009, HCR56 images and the mind: study
guide, Spring session, University of Western Sydney, Penrith.
Thesis / dissertation
Reference list Gale, L 2000, The relationship between leadership and employee
empowerment for successful total quality management, thesis, Penrith,
University of Western Sydney, viewed 31 March 2009, Australasian Digital
Thesis database.
In-text example The University of Western Sydney Madonna and Child handout (2007)
explained that
or
It can be seen that (University of Western Sydney 2007).
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Reference list Rules of the game 1991, Ill fly away, television program, New York
Broadcasting Company.
Note: n.d. = no date. Always include details of authorship and publication date
when available. For websites with no author and/or date, carefully consider the
reliability and authority of the source before including it as a reference.
For further assistance with referencing please contact the Library on 9852 5353.
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