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Harvard (author-date) style examples

Websites

Elements of the citation

Author (person or organisation) Year (site created or revised), Name (and place if applicable) of sponsor of the site, date of viewing the site (date month year), <URL>.

Citing example: In text:

Details of drug recalls and alerts can be viewed at the Therapeutic Goods Administration website at <http://www.tga.gov.au/recalls/index.htm>.

Reference list
Therapeutic Goods Administration 2004, Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, viewed 13 October, 2004, <http://www.tga.gov.au/recalls/index.htm>.

Website documents

Elements of the citation

Author/editor Year of document (created or revised), Title of document - italicised, Name of the sponsor of the source, date of viewing (date month year), <URL>.

Citing example: In text:

Chapter 5 of the report (DEST 2003) outlines developments in the internationalisation of Australian higher education.

Note: If you use the department acronym DEST in your text, your reference list should provide a see reference:

Reference list
Department of Education, Science and Training 2003, The national report on higher education in Australia (2001), Department of Education, Science and Training, Canberra, viewed 13 October, 2004, <http://www.dest.gov.au/highered/otherpub/national_report/default.htm>.

See reference

DEST - see Department of Education, Science and Training.

 

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