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Harvard (author-date) style examples

Books

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  • A book with one author
  • A book published in a second or subsequent edition
  • A book by two or three authors
  • A book by four or more authors
  • An edited book
  • One volume of a multi-volume work
  • A book with no author given
  • A book or work by an association or institution
  • Indirect citations
  • Citing more than one author at one point in the text

Elements of the citation

Author(s) of book - surname and initials Year of publication, Title of book - italicised, Edition, Publisher, Place of publication.

A book with one author

Citing example:

Kizza (2002) examines the motives for cybercrime and its cost.

Cyber attacks may be categorized according to motive (Kizza 2002).

Reference list:
Kizza, JM 2002, Computer network security and cyberethics, McFarland, Jefferson, N.C.

A book published in a second or subsequent edition

Citing example:

Fenna (2004) looks at the three phases of the policy making process.

Reference list
Fenna, A 2004, Australian public policy, 2nd edn, Pearson Education Australia, Frenchs Forest, NSW.

A book by two or three authors

Citing example:

Coates and Holroyd (2003) look at national patterns of internet use.

Japan has developed a technology well suited to local conditions (Coates & Holroyd 2003).

Note: & is used to link the authors'names within the brackets, but not when they appear as part of the sentence.

Reference list:
Coates, K & Holroyd c 2003, Japan and the internet revolution, Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

A book by four or more authors

Citing example:

The Pepsi example illustrates the importance of economic relationships in formulating strategy (Besanko et al. 2003).

Note: et al. (and others) may be used in place of additional authors names in the text of your essay, but all the names must be written in the reference list citation.

Reference list:
Besanko, D,  Dranove, D, Shanley, M & Schaefer, S 2003, Economics of strategy, 3rd edn, J.Wiley, New York.

An edited book

Citing example:

The volume edited by Watts (2003) includes chapters examining the general impact of computer technologies, and their particular application to education.

Reference list
Watts, MM (ed.) 2003, Technology: taking the distance out of learning, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco.

Denzin, NK & Lincoln, YS (eds) 2003, The landscape of qualitative research: theories and issues, 2nd edn, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.

One volume of a multi-volume work

Citing example:

Volume 4 of this work (Pfeiffer, 1991, pp.71-73) includes an overview of the Hawthorne Studies.

Reference list
Pfeiffer, JW (ed.) 1991, Theories and models in applied behavioural science, vol. 4, Organizational, Pfeiffer, San Diego.

A book with no author given

Citing example:

Notes, references and bibliographies are dealt with in Chapter nine (Style manual for authors, editors and printers 1996).

Note: the title is used in both the reference list and citation.

Reference list:
Style manual for authors, editors and printers 1996, 5th edn, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.

A book or work by an association or institution

Citing example:

Short bibliographies of the artists are also provided (National Gallery of Australia 1997).

Reference list:
National Gallery of Australia 1997, The eye of the storm: eight contemporary indigenous artists, 2nd edn, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Indirect citations

These occur when the work of another author is cited by an author you have referred to, (i.e. you have not consulted the original work.)

Citing example:

Allen (cited in Wyn & White p.8) argues that it is "change in society which explains relations between different ages".

Reference list:

  • Provide details of the author who has done the citing:

Wyn, J & White, R 1997, Rethinking youth, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW.
  • You may also provide details of the cited work if it might be of interest to readers:

Allen, S 1968, 'Some theoretical problems in the study of youth', Sociological Review, vol. 16, no.3, pp. 319-331.

Citing more than one author at one point in the text

Citing example:

Other studies of globalization focus on its cultural and human implications (Bauman 1998; Tomlinson 1999).

Note:

  • It is recommended that the authors' names be ordered alphabetically inside the brackets.
  • Use a semicolon to separate the works cited inside the brackets.

Reference list:
Bauman, Z 1999, Globalization and culture, Polity Press, Oxford.

Tomlinson, J 1999, Globalization: the human consequences, Routledge, London.

 

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