Harvard Referencing System - guide and examples

Harvard referencing system is the most common style of referencing used at  Staffordshire University.

You can download the full guide which provides you with Harvard Reference formats for each type of item and gives you both in-text and bibliography examples, or browse the web pages for these.

Download: Harvard Referencing Examples (PDF, file size: 94.19KB)

The following links willl provide further information on aspects of Harvard referencing:

• Guidance on punctuation in Harvard Referencing

• Secondary Referencing

• Books - printed and electronic

• British Standard

• Computer games/programmes

• Conferences

• Dictionaries/encyclopaedias

• Exhibition catalogues

• Government/legal materials - includes command papers, official publications, statutes (Acts of Parliament), UK bills, statutory instruments

• Images - includes works of art, images in a book

• Interviews

• Journals

• Law reports

• Lecture

• Maps and atlases

• Market Survey reports

• Music score

• Newspapers

• Personal communication

• Poem

• Social Media - includes blogs, wiki, Twitter, discussion lists

• Sound - includes podcasts, sound recording, radio broadcast

• Thesis

• Video/DVD

• Visual -  includes plays, dance performance, podcasts, TV broadcasts

• Web