Examples of Referencing in the Harvard Style:

Source In-text Citation Reference

Citing page numbers Include page numbers in the citation when you refer to a specific section in the
source. Exclude page numbers when you refer to a larger section or to an entire
work.
Add a comma after the year and use p. for a single page and pp. for a page range.
Example citation: (Byrne 2014, p.56) (Byrne 2014, pp.17-19)
Book (Author Year) Author(s) surname(s), Initial(s). (Year of publication).
(Bush 2006) Title of book: subtitle if any. Edition followed by ed. (if not the first edition) Place of
Or publication: Publisher.
Bush (2006) argues Bush, T. (2006). Theories of Childcare. London:Harper Row
that….
Two authors (Bolman & Deal 2003) Bolman, L.G., Deal, T.E. (2003).Modern approaches to Understanding and Managing
Or Organisations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Bolman and Deal
(2003) found that…..
More than two (Baldrige et al 2005) Baldridge, J.V., Curtis, D.V. Euchre, G and Riley, G.L. (2005) Effective Communication
authors Or Dublin: Gill and Macmillan
Baldridge et al (2005)
have stated that …
Audiobook Example Author(s) surname(s), Initial(s). (Year of publication).
(McEwan 2002) Title of audiobook: subtitle if any[audiobook]. Edition followed by ed. (if not the first
edition) Place of publication (if any): Publisher.
Example
McEwan, I. (2002). Atonement [audiobook]. New York: HarperCollins.

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Articles in Journals: (Hoyle 2002, pg27) Author(s) surname(s), Initial(s). (Year of publication). Title of article. Title of journal,
Print Or volume number(issue/number, or date/month of publication if volume and issue are
Hoyle (2007, pg 27) absent), page number(s).
stated that … Example
Hoyle, E. (2002) ‘Customer Service and Reception Skills’ Management and
Administration, 10(2), pp87-88 (note you should include the volume number, in this
case 10, the part number where available and page numbers.)
Journal/ (Author Year) Author(s) surname(s), Initial(s). (Year of publication). Title of article. Title of
magazine Example from website journal[online], volume number(issue/number, or date/month of publication if
article: Website or (Spruit 2014) volume and issue are absent), page numbers (if any). Available from: library
library database database name, or URL if accessed online from somewhere other than a library
database [accessed date].

Example of journal article from website Spruit, M. (2014). Pulmonary rehabilitation.

European respiratory review[online], 23(131). Available from:
http://err.ersjournals.com/content/23/131/55.full.pdf+html [accessed 14 May 2015].

Online video (e.g. (Contributor Year) Screen name of contributor. (Year). Title of video[video
YouTube) (University of online]. Available from: URL [accessed date].
Wolverhampton 2013)
Example

University of Wolverhampton (2013). Short guide to Harvard

Referencing[video online]. Available from: http://youtu.be/R
dG91lhDseA [accessed 9 June 2015]

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Image, Figure, (Owner year) Image, Figure, Illustration, Photo or Table: Print: Web(Owner year)
Illustration, Photo or Example Owner of website/image. (Year of publication). Title of image
Table: Print: Web (Dundalk Institute of [image online].Available from: URL [accessed date].
Technology 2012)
Example

Dundalk Institute of Technology. (2012). Whitaker Theatre

[image online]. Available from: https://www.dkit.ie/about [accessed
5 July 2014].

Webpage (Author /Owner Year) (Author/Owner Year)

Material on the Web Example Author/Owner of webpage. (Year created or last updated).
often falls into one of (Monaghan Institute Title of webpage[online]. Available from: URL [accessed
the material types 2015) date].
already covered in
this guide. Example
Information
published on the Monaghan Institute. (2015). Graduate research
Web is not [online]. Available from: http://www.dkit.ie/research/graduate
necessarily a -research [accessed 24 February 2015].
webpage. In such IF THERE IS NO AUTHOR LISTED PLEASE INSERT CORPORATE AUTHOR/OWNER – DO
cases, follow the NOT USE ANON!
instructions for the
material type in
question (e.g. journal
article, book,
YouTube video).

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