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A Quick Guide to: Harvard Referencing
Why do I need to reference?
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To demonstrate your wider reading and understanding of the subject.
To back up your own ideas.
To give other people credit for their work.
How to reference for your bibliography
A bibliography or reference list will contain full details of each work you have used and
discussed within your assignment. It should be arranged alphabetically by author. Different
types of materials will need to be referenced in different ways, as shown below.
Book
Author
Year
Title
Place of
publication
Publisher
Gill, R., 2011. Theory and Practice of Leadership. 2nd ed. London: Sage.
Journal article
Author
Year
Title of article
and journal
Issue and
page numbers
Database and
date of viewing
Sauer, S.J., 2012. Why Bossy is Better for Rookie Managers.Harvard Business Review,
90(5), Available through: Business Source Complete [Accessed 24 July 2012].
e-Book
Author
Year
Title of the
book, follow
with
[e-book]
Place of
Web address
publication and and date of
publisher
viewing
Atrill, P. and McLaney, E., 2009. Management accounting for decision makers.6th ed.[e-book]
Harlow: Pearson. Available through: Dawsonera http://dawsonera.com [Accessed 23 July
2012]
Website
Author (might
be an
organisation)
Year uploaded
to website
Title of the
webpage,
follow with
[online]
Web address
Date of
viewing
Financial Reporting Council, 2012. Codes and Standards.[online] Available at:
www.frc.org.uk [Accessed 12 July 2012]
How to reference within your assignments
The above shows you how to give a full reference of the works you have discussed in your
bibliography or reference list, but you must also cite the author and date when referring to
their ideas within your assignment.
For example:
FRBR is a conceptual model that attempts to increase understanding of the bibliographic
universe (Tillett, 2005).
If you are quoting an author, you will need to give a date and page number.
For example:
The main purpose of creating FRBR was to create a “structured framework for relating the
data that are recorded in bibliographic records to the needs of the users of those records”
(IFLA, 1997 p.7).