Harvard referencing

Answer the following questions. Then use www.citethemrightonline.com to check your answers.

1. What is referencing?

2. What are the two types of references? What is the function of each type?

Type Function

3. Why do we need to reference? Try to think of 3 good reasons.

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4. What is your previous experience of referencing?

At Regent College London, we are going to use the Harvard author/date system of referencing.

Study the following example of a full in-text citation:

Author’s
surname Page number;
note the use of
p.

Tack, 2015, p.192

Note the use of

commas
Year
Now look at how in-text citations are used in sentences. What do you notice about the punctuation? How
do these in-text citations differ from one another? Why is this?

1. Allen (2014) points out that London’s main foreign investors come from China, Russia and the Middle
East.

2. There are parts of London where construction is banned due to protection of skylines (The Economist,
2014).

3. London is said to be in danger of a housing bubble as it satisfies ‘bubble indicators’ devised by

academic writers (Yoshino et al., 2013).

True or False? If the statement is false, correct it. Use Cite Them Right Online to check your answers.

1. A list of references and a bibliography are the same thing. T / F

2. To reference a printed book at the end of your paper, you need the following pieces of information:
author’s surname, year, title of book, city of publication and publisher. T / F

3. When referencing a web page at the end of your paper, it is important to include the date the page was
accessed. T / F
4. You must not include sources in the list of references which were not cited in the text. T / F

5. You should try to memorise the format for creating entries in the list of references. T / F

Look at the following information taken from an academic book. Write the correct in-text citation and
entry for the list of references in Harvard style.

Authors James Dean Brown, Theodore S. Rodgers

Title Doing second language research

Year 2002

City of publication Oxford

Publisher Oxford University Press

In-text

List of references
Look at the following information taken from an academic journal article. Refer to the model reference
on Cite Them Right Online to write the correct in-text citation and entry for the list of references in
Harvard style.

Authors Richard Arthur, Martina Francisca Baidoo, Edward Antwi

Title Biogas as a potential renewable energy source: A Ghanaian case study

Year 2011

Journal Renewable Energy

Volume 36

Pages 1510-1516

In-text

List of references

Check out a book that interests you from the LRC. Write the correct in-text citation and entry for the list
of references in Harvard style.

In-text

List of references