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Harvard Referencing Quick Guide June 2022

Harvard referencing can vary in format. This guide provides examples based on the
style in the book Cite Them Right. Check with your tutor and/or module handbook for
further guidance on the referencing requirements for your assignments. Remember
to add page number(s) to your in-text citation when you have a direct quote
necessary (see full Harvard guide).

Type Reference example In-text citation

example
Book or ebook McCabe, J. (2004) Feminist film studies: (McCabe, 2004).
(with one author) writing the woman into cinema. London: If, you have a
Wallflower. direct quote
(McCabe, 2004,
p. 51).
Source with one, Knight, A, O’Connell, R. and Brannen, J. (Knight,
two (2018) ‘Eating with friends, family or not O’Connell and
to three authors at all: young people’s experiences of Brannen, 2018).
food poverty in the UK’, Children and
Society, 32, p. 185-194. doi:
10.1111/chso.12264.

Source with four Carrabine, E., Cox, A., Cox, P., (Carrabine et al.,
or more authors Crowhurst, I., Di Ronco, A., Fussey, P., 2020).
Sergi, A., South, N., Thiel, D. and
Turton, J. (2020) Criminology: a
sociological introduction. 4th edn. New
York: Routledge.

Edited book Harrison, M. and Sanders, T. (eds.) (Harrison and

(2014) Social policies and social control: Sanders, 2014).
new perspectives on the ‘not-so-big
society’. Bristol: Policy Press.

Book with Stuart-Hamilton, I. (2012) The (Stuart-Hamilton,

later edition psychology of ageing: an introduction. 2021).
5th edn. London: Jessica Kingsley.

Book chapter Isaacs, S. (2014) ‘Poverty’, in Isaacs, S., (Isaacs, 2014).

Blundell, D., Foley, A., Ginsberg, N.,
McDonough, B., Silverstone, D and
Young, T. (eds.), Social problems in the
UK. New York: Routledge, pp.46-69.

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Type Reference example In-text citation
example
Translated book Barthes, R. (1994) The semiotic (Barthes, 1994).
challenge. Translated from the French
by R. Howard. Berkeley: University of
California Press.

Academic Jenkins, K., Benton, D. Tapper, K., (Jenkins et al.,

Journal article Murphy, S and Moore, L. (2015) ‘A 2015)
cross-sectional observational study of
the nutritional intake of UK primary
school children from deprived and non-
deprived backgrounds: implications for
school breakfast schemes’, International
Journal of Behaviour, Nutrition and
Add the doi Physical Activity, 12(1), pp. 86-95.
where available doi:10.1186/s12966-015-0238-9.

Newspaper or Coaston, J. (2019) ‘The intersectionality (Coaston, 2019).

Magazine article wars’, The Vox, 28 May. Available at:
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/
If, the article is 5/20/18542843/intersectionality-
from a print copy conservatism-law-race-gender-
omit the Available discrimination (Accessed: 21 November
at: and the 2021).
Accessed: details
Guidelines from NICE (2017) Endometriosis: diagnosis (NICE, 2017).
health, and management. NG73. Available at:
government https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng73.
departments and (Accessed: 27 November 2021).
organisations
Online thesis or Allison, H. (2016) ‘But you’ve done well, (Allison, 2016).
Dissertation haven’t you’?: an exploration of the
educational and social experiences of
lone parent students in higher
education. Doctoral thesis. London
Metropolitan University. Available at:
http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/1250/
(Accessed: 11 August 2020).

Market Research Mintel Group (2021) Fashion and (Mintel, 2021).

sustainability-UK. Available at: https://0-
reports-mintel-
com.emu.londonmet.ac.uk/display/1097
503/?highlight#hit1 (Accessed: 22
September 2021).

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Type Reference example In-text citation
example
Company or Bureau van Dijk (2021) Greggs Plc (Bureau van Dijk,
country report company report. Available at: 2021).
from a database https://fame.bvdinfo.com/version-
2021825/fame/1/Companies/Report
(Accessed: 22 September 2021).

Online lecture, Stepp, K. (2013) HR and the workplace (Stepp, 2013)

presentation, or of the future [Presentation]. Available at:
webinar http://www.slideshare.net/thetalentproje
ct/hr-the-workplace-of-the-future
(Accessed: 25 November 2021)

Published report Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2021) UK (Joseph

from poverty 2020/21: The leading Rowntree
a reputable independent report. Available at: Foundation,
website https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/uk-poverty- 2021).
2020-21 (Accessed: 10 October 2021).

Online Department for Education (2020) (Department for

Government/ Progress report on the Apprenticeships Education, 2020).
Department/local Reform Programme. Available at:
authority https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/
publication government/uploads/system/uploads/
attachment_data/file/883065/
Progress_report_on_the_apprenticeship
s_reform_programme_2020.pdf
(Accessed: 13 August 2020).

Act of Parliament Children and Families Act 2014, c. 6. (Children and

Available at: Families Act
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/20 2014).
14/6/contents
(Accessed: 10 October 2021).

Book illustration/ Secker, J. and Coonan, E. (eds.) (2013) Secker and

diagram/logo/ Rethinking information literacy: a Coonan,
table/graph/figure practical framework for supporting 2013, p. xxii).
learning. London: Facet publishing. p.
xxii, fig.1.

Online Day, L. (1965) Nova 3. [Textile]. (Day, 1965).

illustration/ Available at:
diagram/logo/ https://www.vads.ac.uk/digital/collection/
table/graph/figure DCSC/id/3970/rec/1 (Accessed: 23
August 2021)

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Type Reference example In-text citation
example
Medical image The vasculature of the brain (2017). (The vasculature
e.g. Available at: of the brain,
Visible Body https://ovid.visiblebody.com/atlas_17/ 2017).
(Accessed: 6 October 2017).

Blog Buck, D. (2020) ‘Obesity: time for (Buck, 2020).

action’, The King’s Fund blog, 14 July.
Available at:
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2020/
07/obesity-time-action (Accessed: 12
August 2020).

Social Media: Islington Council (2020) [Facebook]. 20 (Islington Council,

Facebook April. Available at: 2020)
https://www.facebook.com/IslingtonBC/p
hotos/a.1741917769194054/330150402
6568746 (Accessed: 12 August 2020).

Twitter Obama, B. (2014) Earning the minimum (Obama, 2014).

wage while raising a family shouldn't
mean living in poverty. It's time to
#RaiseTheWage: http://ofa.bo/a0dR
[Twitter]. 15 August. Available at:
http://twitter.com/BarackObama
(Accessed: 13 August 2021).

bobandrobertasmith (2021) City (boband

Instagram Hobgoblin Reading Top Rank 1981: The robertasmith.
Fall 2021)
Available at:
https://www.instagram.com/
bobandrobertasmith/ (Accessed: 25
November 2021).

Obama, M. (2020) The Michelle Obama (Obama, 2020),

Podcast podcast: What your mother never told
you about health with Dr. Sharon
Malone [Podcast]. 12 August. Available
at: Spotify (Accessed: 13 August 2020).

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 Type Reference example In-text citation
example
Film/movie Citizen Kane (1941) Directed by Orson (Citizen Kane,
DVD/ Blu-ray Welles. [Blu-ray, 1000619673] 1941).
Reissued. Burbank, Calif: Warner Bros.,
2016.

Streaming Matrix (1999) Directed by A. Wachowski (Matrix, 1999).

services and L. Wachowski. Available at:
YouTube Movies (Accessed: 8 August
2020).

YouTube, IGTV, The Khan Academy (2009) Introduction (The Khan

Video on the to the atom. 25 August. Available at: Academy, 2009)
internet http://youtu.be/1xSQlwWGT8MB
(Accessed: 17 August 2020).

Television/Radio ‘Olding’ (2019) The Crown, Netflix, 17 (The Crown,

programme on November. Available at: Netflix 2019).
the streaming (Accessed: 17 August 2020).
services

Secondary Referencing, Secondary citing or one author citing another.

DO NOT put the authors cited in the article, book or source you are reading, into
your work if you have not read the original text.

You must:
find the original to read yourself
or
find someone else who has made the same point and cite them

As a last resort, you could use cited in, if paraphrased, or quoted in, if it is a direct
quote from the text. You must put a page number for a quote or paraphrase.