Sunday, April 11, 2010

Harvard Referencing

The above has always been sticking point for many of my students:

Now let us see this:
Citing within the text is called in-text citation. The format is:
  1. For authors - (Surname, year:page number)
  2. For web references (URL, year)

For bibliography, the format is:

  1. For authors - Surname, Initials. (year in brackets). Title of book in italics plus edition. City the book was published: Publisher.

An example is Booster, C. (2010). Computer Technology, 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

  1. For websites - Website name (not the search engine you used). (year in brakets). Title in italics. [Online in square brackets]. Available from: URL. [Date accessed in brackets]

An example is Wikipedia. (2010). Microprocessors. [Online]. Available from: http://www.microporcessors.html. [Date accessed: 12 August 2010].

Notice there presence and positions of full stops in all references.