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EXAMPLES OF REFERENCING USING HARVARD
BOOKS
Basic format for books: author’s family name, Initial/s year,
title of book
, publisher, place of
publication.
Example
Setting out your in-text
reference
The entry in the Bibliography
Book with single author
Escritt (2000) argues that
Pollock caused this…
OR
Pollock’s caused this. (Escritt
2000, p.3)
Escritt, S 2000,
Art nouveau,
Phaidon,
London.
Book with more than 2
authors
As suggested by Sandler et al.
(1995, p.14) …
Sandler, MP, Patton, JA, Coleman, RE,
Gottschalk, A, Wackers, FJ and Hoffere,
PB 1995,
Diagnostic nuclear medicine,
Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore
2nd or later edition of a book
Several characteristics support
this (Derham 2001, p.46) and …
Derham, F 2001,
Art for the child under
seven,
7
th
edn, Australian Early Childhood
Association, Watson, ACT.
Encyclopedia or Dictionary -
no author
The Hutchinson encyclopaedia
(2001, p.231) defines ethics as
…
Anon. 2001,
Hutchinson Encyclopaedia
of
the 20
th
Century
, Oxford University Press,
Oxford.
Document on the Web
This is clarified by des Jardins
(1998, p.1) who identifies …
… was clearly the most
successful (de Jardins 1998, p.1)
Page number gained by going to
“Print-Preview” under File
menu)
des Jardins, M 1998,
How to succeed in
postgraduate study,
Applied Ecology
Research Group, University of Canberra,
viewed 26 April 2001,
<http://aerg.canberra.edu.au/jardins/t.htm>
Document on Web with no
author
An overview of lung cancer was
provided in
Lung Cancer
(2009)
and …
This significantly heightened the
rise of Cancer developing.
(Anon, www.health, p.3)
Anon. 2004,
Lung Cancer.,
msn Health,
viewed 12 June 2009,
<http://content.health.msn.com/condition>Newspaper article (with
author)
As lonesco described (2001) in
his article …
OR
… was at 46% (Advertiser 2001,
p.10)
lonesco, J 2001, ‘Federal election: new
Chipp in politics’,
Advertiser
23 October,
p.10.
Note: An initial ‘the’ in English language
newspaper titles is omitted
Newspaper article (no author)
… was claimed in the Advertiser
(23 October 2008, p.10)
Advertiser
2008, ‘Federal election: new
Chipp in politics’, 23 October, p.10
NOTE:
There are very good pamphlets available at the borrowing desk in the school library to help you
correctly set out both your referencing and bibliography.