A GUIDE TO REFERENCING with examples in the Harvard style

Format Reference List In-text Citation
Dictionary
Family Name(s) of Author(s)/Editor(s),
Initial(s) (ed./eds) Year of publication,
Title of dictionary, edition, Publisher,
Place of Publication.
Smytheson, C 2006, Macquarie
th
concise dictionary, 6 edn,
Macquarie Dictionary Publishers,
Sydney.
The Macquarie concise dictionary (Smytheson 2006)
defines …
Smytheson’s (2006) sixth edition of the Macquarie
concise dictionary is a good example of …
Note: A dictionary must be cited in the text,
but it does not need to appear in the
reference list. However, further details may
be given in the reference list if you wish the
reader to be able to follow up the source, or if
your lecturer requires such an entry.
Note: An in-text citation is required.
Encyclopaedia
with author(s)
Family Name(s) of Author(s)/Editor(s),
Initial(s) (ed./eds) Year of publication,
Title of encyclopaedia, edition, volume,
number, Publisher, Place of Publication.
Ugall, Z (ed.) 1923, The encyclopaedia
of modern prosthetics, 4 th edn, vol. 9,
Prastique Publishers, Prague.
The prosthetics used at the beginning of the twentieth
century were rather odd (ed. Ugall 1923).
Ugall’s (ed. 1923) publication includes rather odd images
of …
Note: An encyclopaedia must be cited in the
text, but it does not need to appear in the
reference list. However, further details may be
given in the reference list if you wish the
reader to be able to follow up the source, or if
your lecturer requires such an entry.
Note: An in-text citation is required.
Government
document
Name of Government Department
(Acronym, if applicable) Year of
publication, Title of document,
Publisher, Place of Publication.
Department of Finance and
Administration (DOFA) 2006,
Delivering Australian government
services: managing multiple channels,
First in-text citation:
There is a real need to deliver e-services using multiple
channels (Department of Finance and Administration
(DOFA) 2006) and …
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