Harvard Style of Referencing

Academic writing requires authors to support their arguments with reference to other published work or experimental results/findings. A reference system will perform three essential tasks:

• enable you to acknowledge other authors’ ideas (avoid plagiarism).
• enable a reader to quickly locate the source of the material you refer to so they can consult it if they wish.
• indicate to the reader the scope and depth of your research.

Many universities require their students to use Harvard style of referencing for academic writing. The Harvard style is a widely used referencing system to help you achieve the above objectives.

Contents:

In this course, you will cover:

1. Harvard style – what does it look like?
2. In Text Citations
3. Reference List
4. How to use the Harvard Referencing Style?
5. Harvard Style Short Quotation
6. Harvard Style Long Quotation
7. Quoting Ideas
8. Overuse of Quotations and Plagiarism