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| '''Harvard referencing''' — also known as the '''author-date system''' <ref>, based on the ''Chicago Manual of Style'', University of Georgia, retrieved October 18, 2005.</ref> and '''parenthetical system''' <ref>, ''The Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing'', retrieved August 4, 2006.</ref> — is a format for writing and organizing ]s of source materials. |
'''Harvard referencing''' — also known as the '''author-date system''' <ref>, based on the ''Chicago Manual of Style'', University of Georgia, retrieved October 18, 2005.</ref> and '''parenthetical system''' <ref>, ''The Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing'', retrieved August 4, 2006.</ref> — is a format for writing and organizing ]s of source materials. | ||
| Under the Harvard referencing system, a brief citation to a source is given in the text of an article, and full citations collected in alphabetical order under a "References" or "Works Cited" heading at the end. The citation is placed in parentheses after the sentence or part of one, followed by the year of publication, as in (Author 2005), and a page number where appropriate (Author 2005, p. 1) or (Author 2005:1). | Under the Harvard referencing system, a brief citation to a source is given in the text of an article, and full citations collected in alphabetical order under a "References" or "Works Cited" heading at the end. The citation is placed in parentheses after the sentence or part of one, followed by the year of publication, as in (Author 2005), and a page number where appropriate (Author 2005, p. 1) or (Author 2005:1). | ||
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| Harvard referencing was first used in 1881 in a paper by Edward Laurens Mark, <ref>Mark, Edward Laurens. 1881. Maturation, fecundation, and segmentation of Limax campestris. ''Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology'' vol. 6, part 2, no. 12: 173–625.</ref> professor of anatomy and director of the zoological laboratory at ], who derived it from the laboratory library's cataloguing system. <ref name=Chernin>Chernin, Eli. "The "Harvard System: a mystery dispelled," British Medical Journal vol 297 October 22, 1988, 1062-1063.</ref> | |||
| Traditionally, Harvard referencing has been used mostly in the sciences (''University of Chicago Press'' 2006). In the fine arts, history, and literature, the footnote-style ''documentary-note'' or ''humanities'' system has traditionally been preferred. The ], a variation of Harvard referencing, has been used primarily for medical works. In recent decades, "most scholarly and professional organizations" have turned to Harvard referencing. | Traditionally, Harvard referencing has been used mostly in the sciences (''University of Chicago Press'' 2006). In the fine arts, history, and literature, the footnote-style ''documentary-note'' or ''humanities'' system has traditionally been preferred. The ], a variation of Harvard referencing, has been used primarily for medical works. In recent decades, "most scholarly and professional organizations" have turned to Harvard referencing. | ||
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For the use of Harvard referencing in Misplaced Pages, see Misplaced Pages:Harvard referencingHarvard referencing — also known as the author-date system and parenthetical system — is a format for writing and organizing citations of source materials.
Under the Harvard referencing system, a brief citation to a source is given in the text of an article, and full citations collected in alphabetical order under a "References" or "Works Cited" heading at the end. The citation is placed in parentheses after the sentence or part of one, followed by the year of publication, as in (Author 2005), and a page number where appropriate (Author 2005, p. 1) or (Author 2005:1).
Origins and variations
Harvard referencing was first used in 1881 in a paper by Edward Laurens Mark, professor of anatomy and director of the zoological laboratory at Harvard University, who derived it from the laboratory library's cataloguing system.
Traditionally, Harvard referencing has been used mostly in the sciences (University of Chicago Press 2006). In the fine arts, history, and literature, the footnote-style documentary-note or humanities system has traditionally been preferred. The Vancouver system, a variation of Harvard referencing, has been used primarily for medical works. In recent decades, "most scholarly and professional organizations" have turned to Harvard referencing.
Variants of Harvard referencing differ on issues such as punctuation (period or comma after a book or journal title) and quotation (not quoting or quoting an article title). This article follows the University of Chicago variant .
Citations and references
The structure of a citation under the Harvard referencing system is the author's surname, year of publication, and page number or range, all in parentheses, as illustrated in the Deane example near the top of this article.
The page number or page range is omitted if the entire work is cited. The author's surname is omitted if it appears in the text. Thus we may say: Deane (2001) revolutionized the teaching of trauma surgery.
An unknown date is cited as no date (Deane n. d.). A reference to a reprint is cited with the original publication date in square brackets (Marx 1967, 90).
If an author published two books in 2005, the year of the first (in the alphabetic order of the references) is cited and referenced as 2005a, the second as 2005b.
Two or three authors are cited using and: (Deane, Nguyen, and D'Souza n. d.). The corresponding reference might be, for example,
- Deane, Sandra, Howard Nguyen, and T. X. D'Souza. N. d. Laparoscopic surgery, http://example.org/lapasurg.html.
Four or more authors are cited using et alia (Deane et al. 1992).
A citation is placed wherever appropriate, as in the "Deane revolutionized" example above. If it is at the end of a sentence, a citation is placed before the period. For example: "Surgery is a team effort" (Deane et al. 1992, 17). But a citation for an entire block quote immediately follows the period at the end of the block.
References for all works cited are in alphabetical order in a section near the end of the citing work. Usually the section is called References or Works cited only if all entries are explicitly cited; otherwise it may be called Bibliography.
All citations and references are in the same font as the main text.
Examples of book references are
- Smith, J. 2005a. Harvard referencing. Myakka, Florida: Wikimedia Foundation. ISBN 1-899235-74-4.
- Smith, J. 2005b. More Harvard referencing. Myakka, Florida: Wikimedia Foundation. ISBN 1-899235-74-4.
An example of a journal reference is
- Smith, John Maynard. 1998. The origin of altruism. Nature 393: 639–40.
A newspaper article is usually cited in running text and omitted from the References section. An example of a formal newspaper reference is
- Bowcott, O. 2005. Protests halt online auction to shoot stag. The Guardian, October 18, http://www.guardian.co.uk/animalrights/story/0,11917,1594716,00.html.
When book chapters or journal articles are referenced, the use of the word In, the choices of punctuation, and the placement of the page range may seem arbitrary. The following schematic examples highlight the differences.
- Authors. Year. Chapter title. In Book title, page-range. City: Publisher. URL.
- Authors. Year. Article title. Journal title volume-number: page-range, URL.
Harvard referencing and content notes
Harvard referencing is compatible with footnotes used for content notes. Harvard referencing is an alternative to footnotes used for reference notes (that is, the documentary-note system). Footnotes, if used for content notes, often contain Harvard referencing citations, just as the main text does.
See also
Notes
Warning: the items in this section follow neither the Harvard referencing system nor any other accepted guidelines for citing references. Do not consider these items to be examples of any footnote or reference system.
- "Bibliographic Format for References", based on the Chicago Manual of Style, University of Georgia, retrieved October 18, 2005.
- "Basic structure and format of citation styles", The Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing, retrieved August 4, 2006.
- Mark, Edward Laurens. 1881. Maturation, fecundation, and segmentation of Limax campestris. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology vol. 6, part 2, no. 12: 173–625.
- Chernin, Eli. "The "Harvard System: a mystery dispelled," British Medical Journal vol 297 October 22, 1988, 1062-1063.
- A citation guide sponsored by an MIT-Microsoft joint venture states that "most scholarly and professional organizations have abandoned because redundant and cumbersome.... In the 1980s the Modern Language Association, the largest American organization of scholars in English and foreign literatures, changed its recommended form of citation from a note style to its own version of the parenthetical style" (Mayfield, section 10.3).
- For example, Flinders University uses the comma and the quoting, at The Harvard referencing system: a simple guide. University of Chicago uses the other choices mentioned.
Further reading
- MIT. 2006. "Citing sources and listing references", in The Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing.