Harvard Referencing Guide
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Sources of Information
Highly Recommended:
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Academic and other published Journal Articles
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eBooks and Printed Books
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Newspaper Articles (Printed or Financial times. Gulf News. Khaleej Times etc)
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Organizations Official Sites (i.e. World Bank, World Trade Organization)
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Governmental Sites (Government.ae), Academic Professional sites such as (CIMA,
National Statistics)
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Interviews of CEO of Companies on YouTube
Not Allowed to Use:
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Wikipedia
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Websites with no authors or proper titles
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Uk Essays
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All kind of websites that contains assignments
NOTE: Use Latest data (Between last 5 years)
About Plagiarism
How Plagiarism is detected by Turnitin?
How to avoid Plagiarism?
 Direct Quotation:
someone else’s exact words in your paper.
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placed in quotation marks.
Example: XYZ stated that “We are the People” (Source of information).
 Paraphrase:
Convert the entire passage in your own words
Warning:Avoid close paraphrasing and using the same structure of the
sentence
 Summary:
Summarize and generalise the main points of an article.
 Giving proper citations
How to avoid Plagiarism?
In text Citation
Provided in the body of the text only the surname of the author and the year
(Surname, Year)
(Organization Name, Year)
(Website Name, Year)
Reference List
Complete address to the source of Information
Location of reference and the In-text Citation
In the body of the text
At the end of the
word Document
In text Citation as per the number of Authors
One Author:
Example In text Citation: (Richins, 2011)
Richins, M. L. (2011) ‘Materialism, transformation expectations, and spending: Implications for
credit use’. Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, 30, pp. 141–156.
Two Authors:
Example In text Citation: (Peter and Olson, 2007)
Peter, J. P., and Olson, J. (2007) Consumer behavior 8th edn. McGraw-Hill, pp. 547.
Three Authors:
Example In text Citation: (Quester, Pettigrew and Hawkins, 2011)
Quester, P., Pettigrew, S., and Hawkins, D. (2011) Consumer behavior, 6th edn. Sydney:
McGraw-Hill, pp. 634.
Four and more Authors:
Example In text Citation: (Saunders et al., 2015)
Saunders, M.N., Lewis, P., Thornhill, A. and Bristow, A., (2015). Research Methods for Business
Students. Harlow: Pearson Education, pp. 122–161.
Organization Websites
Organization Name (Year that the page was last updated) Title of
web page. [Online] Available at: URL [Accessed: date].
(Organization Name, Year)
EXAMPLE:
Apple Inc. (2019) Regions Apple sells its Products. [Online] Available at:
https://www.apple.com/choose-country-region/ [Accessed: 22 April 2019].
Websites
Website Name (Year that the page was last updated) Title of web
page. [Online] Available at: URL [Accessed: date].
(Website Name/ Author’s Surname, Year)
EXAMPLE:
Desta, Y. (2016) The year Disney started to take diversity seriously: Vanity Fair.
[Online] Available at: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/11/disneyfilms-inclusive [Accessed: 22 April 2019].
News Paper Article
Surname, Initial. (Year of publication) ‘Title of article’, Title of Newspaper, Day
month. [Online] Available at: URL [Accessed: date].
(Surname of Author, Year of publication)
(Name of News Paper, Year)
EXAMPLE:
Pennington, R. (2017) ‘Rising Materialism a Threat to Life,’ The National, 16
July, [Online] Available at: https://www.thenational.ae/uae/rising-materialism-athreat-to-life-satisfaction-finds-uae-study-1.609455 [Accessed: 18 March 2019].
Journal Article
Surname, Initial. (Year of publication) ‘Title of
article’, Title of Journal, Issue information, Page reference.
EXAMPLE:
Bassett, N., (2005). ‘The paradox of diversity management,
creativity and innovation’. Creativity and innovation
management, 14(2), pp.169-175.
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