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Harvard Referencing Quick Guide

Referencing a book
The citation in your text looks like this:
(Cottrell, 2008)
The reference in your reference list looks like this:
Cottrell, S. (2008),The Study Skills Handbook.3rd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Referencing a journal article

The citation in your text looks like this:
(Bloggs, 2008)
The reference in your reference list looks like this:
Bloggs, D. (2008),The Impact of the Recession, Journal of Economics, Vol.9, No.2, pp.14-18.

Referencing a website
The citation looks like this:
(Red Cross, 2008)
The reference in your reference list looks like this:
Red Cross (2008), Review of Policy in 2010, Red Cross. Available from:
http://redcross.org.uk/index.asp?id=39992 [Electronically accessed 28 October, 2010.]
If there is an author the citation looks like this:
(Race, 2012)
Race, P. (2012), How to do Uni: ten points for prospective students, Phil Race. Available from
http://phil-race.co.uk/how-to-do-uni-ten-points-for-prospective-students/ . [Electronically
accessed 31 May 2012]
Or this:
(Philp, 2012)
Philp, C. (2012), For a dove, this President swoops like a hawk, The Times. May 5 2012.
Available from http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iwsearch/we/InfoWeb?p_product=WLSNB&p_theme=aggregated5&p_action=doc&p_docid=13E9
55DF86074620&p_docnum=57&p_queryname=9 [Electronically accessed 31 May 2012]
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