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HARVARD FORMAT CITATION GUIDE
This is a complete guide to Harvard in-text and reference list citations. This easy-to-use,
comprehensive guide makes citing any source easy.
Reference List/Bibliography
A reference list is a complete list of all the sources used when creating a piece of work.
This list includes information about the sources like the author, date of publication, title of
the source and more. A Harvard reference list must:
Be on a separate sheet at the end of the document
Be organised alphabetically by author, unless there is no author then it is ordered
by the source title, excluding articles such as a, an or the
Be double spaced: there should be a full, blank line of space between each line of
text
Contain full references for all in-text citations used
In-Text Citations
In-text citation must be included following the use of a quote or paraphrase taken from
another piece of work.
In-text citation are references written within the main body of text and refer to a quote or
paraphrase. They are much shorter than full references. The full reference of in-text
citations appears in the reference list. In Harvard referencing, in-text citations contain the
author(s)’s or editor(s)’s surname, year of publication and page number(s). For instance,
using an example author Agness Kaira, this takes the form:
Kaira (2017) states... Or (Kaira, 2017) states….
Two or Three Authors:
When citing a source with two or three authors, state all surnames like so:
Kaira, Zaza and Lungu (2017states… Or
(Kaira, Zaza and Lungu, 2017) states……
Four or More Authors:
In this case, the first author’s surname should be stated followed by ‘et al’:
Kaira et al (2017) states… Or (Kaira et al, 2017)
3. How to Cite Different Source Types
a. How to Cite a Book in Harvard Format
Book referencing is the simplest format in Harvard referencing style. The basic
format is as follows:
Book Referencing Example:
Mitchell, J.A. and Thomson, M. (2017) A guide to citation.3rd edn. London: London
Publishings.
b. How to Cite an Edited Book in Harvard Format
Edited books are collations of chapters written by different authors. Their reference
format is very similar to the book reference except instead of the author name, the
