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Harvard Style

This guide describes the Harvard system of Citing and Referencing sources in academic work.

 

There are 2 ways to present your in-text citations: information prominent or author prominent citations.

 

Information prominent citations:

If the author’s name does not appear naturally within the sentence, include the name, year and/or pages you are referring to in brackets at the end of the sentence.

 

Increased oversight of licenced establishments, especially in the vicinity of schools and especially in more impoverished regions, may help lower the percentage of teenagers who consume alcohol while underage (Doyle, Foley and Houghton, 2024).

 

 

Author prominent citations:

If the name appears naturally in the body of your sentence, just add the date and/or page numbers in brackets after the name where it occurs. 

 

Higgins (2024, p. 24) found that ‘…’

 

Examples:

 

• Successful organisation is required for early morning routines before school (Flynn, 2021).
• There may be a correlation between a student’s personal interest and drive for research and superior academic performance (Bickford et al., 2020).
• Doyle and Kenny (2019) argue that …
• The research of Mullins et al. (2017) has been challenged by …
• Hartmann (2017, p. 2) discusses how ‘the laws of beauty are highly specialized and are fundamentally different for each object’.
• The top global causes of death are associated with cardiovascular, respiratory and neonatal conditions (World Health Organization, 2020).

 


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