A Guide to Referencing your Work

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Modern Humanities Research Association
3. Harvard (author-date) referencing system
   1. Citing sources in the text
   2. Sources with multiple authors
   3. Multiple sources by the same author
   4. Citing sources quoted in another source
   5. Reference list
   6. Books
   7. Books with more than one author
   8. Books with an editor or translator
   9. Chapters or articles from books
   10. Articles from journals
   11. Articles from newspapers and magazines
   12. Unpublished dissertations and theses
   13. Online sources
   14. Articles from electronic journals
   15. Recorded media - films, music, sound recordings etc.
   16. Variations on the Author-date system
4. Revision Exercises

Reference list

When referencing a piece of work using the Harvard system, a list of all the sources cited in the text should be added to the end. This list takes the place of a bibliography and should provide all the details necessary for a reader to find and consult any of the sources used. Each entry should thus include:

• The name of the author
• The title of the work
• The name of the collection, journal etc in which it appears, if relevant
• The date of publication
• The place of publication
• The publisher

The reference list entries should be listed alphabetically by the surnames of the authors or editors.

Where there are several works by the same author, they should be listed in date order, oldest first. Where there are a number of works produced by the same author in the same year, they should be distinguished with the addition of a lower case letter after the date e.g. '1989a'.