Author-date (Harvard) Referencing Guide

School of Nursing & Midwifery
Flinders University

There is also a printable copy of the guide available in PDF format.

Contents:

Introduction

• What is referencing?
  
• Why is referencing necessary?
  
• When to reference
  
• The Harvard System
  
• The anatomy of a reference
  

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General Rules of Referencing

• Quotations
  
• Page numbers in the textual reference
  
• Date variations
  
• Rules about authors
  

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The Textual Reference

• One author
• Two or three authors
• Four or more authors
• No author
• One volume of a multi-volume set
• Two authors with the same surname
• A chapter in an edited work
• Personal communications
• A work described in another work
• Information found in more than one source
• Two or more publications with the same author and date

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The Reference List

• The layout of the list
• The essential elements
• Punctuation
• Capitalisation of titles
  • Titles of books
  • Titles of journals, magazines and newspapers
  • Titles of journal articles, book chapters & conference papers
  • Titles of unpublished works
    
• Book references
  • One author
    
  • Two authors
    
  • More than two authors
    
  • No author
    
  • A book sponsored by an organisation or institution
    
  • A chapter in an edited work
    
  • An edited work
    
  • One volume of a multi-volume work
    
  • A translated work
    
  • A book that is part of a series
    
• Journal articles
  • No author
    
  • One author
    
  • More than one author
    
  • Newspaper articles
    
• Published conference papers
  • Unedited conference proceedings
  • Edited conference proceedings
• Unpublished works
  • Theses
  • Unpublished papers at conferences, meetings etc.
  • Lecture notes & study guides
• Government publications
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) material
  • Government reports
  • Government publications that are part of a series
  • Parliamentary papers
  • Acts of Parliament
• Standards
• Encyclopedia entries
• Films and videos
• Television and radio broadcasts
• Publications on microfiche or microfilm
• Cassette or CD recordings
• A sample reference list

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Electronic Sources

• General rules for referencing electronic sources
  • The statement of availability
  • Date of access
  • Page numbers
  • The web page title
  • Determining the webpage author
  • Publication dates on webpages
• Electronic Books
• Electronic journal articles in fulltext databases & journal collections
  • A journal article from Expanded Academic ASAP
  • A journal article from the Journals@OVID collection
  • A journal article available on the CINAHL database
  • A journal article abstract on the PubMed database
  • A journal article from the Blackwell Science collection
  • A Cochrane Review in the Cochrane Library via Wiley Interscience
  • An in-press journal article on the Science Direct database
• Electronic journals available on the World Wide Web
• A World Wide Web page
  • A webpage with an author
  • A webpage with no author
• A document within a website
• Email
• CD-ROMs
• Theses - Australian Digital Theses Program (ADT)
• Media release on World Wide Web
• Discussion board, newsgroups and listservers

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Bibliography

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