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An online guide to referencing and citing using the Harvard style

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Book Journal article online

In-text In-text citation Reference list

Reference list
citation (Author Year) Author(s) surname(s), Initial(s). (Year of
(Author(s) Author(s) surname(s), Initial(s). (Year of publication). Title of article. Title of journal
Year) publication). Title of book: subtitle if any. [online], volume number(issue/number, or

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Edition followed by ed. (if not the first date/month of publication if volume and iss
edition) Place of publication: Publisher. are absent), page numbers or Article eLocat
Examples number (if any). Available from: library
(Cameron Cameron, S. (2021). The business database name, or URL or DOI if accessed

2021) student's handbook: skills for study and online from somewhere other than a library
employment. 7th ed. Harlow: Pearson. database [accessed date].

(Giddens and Giddens, A. and Sutton, P.W. (2021). Examples

Sutton 2021) Sociology. 9th ed. Cambridge: Polity (Leighton et al. Leighton S.C., Nieforth L.O. and O’Haire M.E
Press. 2022) (2022). Assistance dogs for military veteran
with PTSD: A systematic review, meta-
(Robbins et Robbins, S.P., Coulter, M.A. and De
analysis, and meta-synthesis. PLoS ONE
al. Cenzo, D.A. (2020). Fundamentals of
[online], 17(9), Article e0274960. Available
2020) management. 11th ed. Harlow: Pearson.
from:
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.02749
[accessed 24 November 2022].
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(Mayombe Mayombe, C. (2021). Partnership with
2021) stakeholders as innovative model of work-
integrated learning for unemployed youths.
Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based
Learning [online], 12(2), pp.309-327. Availab
from: Emerald Insight [accessed 25 March
2022].
(Tesseur 2022) Tesseur, W. (2022). Translation as inclusion
An analysis of international NGOs’ translatio
policy documents. Language Problems and
Language Planning [online], 45(3), pp. 261-2
Available from: https://doras.dcu.ie/26151
[accessed 25 March 2022].
Chapter in an edited book
Use when referring to a single chapter in an edited
book.
In-text
Reference list
citation
(Chapter Chapter author(s) surname(s), Initial(s).
author’s (Year of publication). Title of chapter. In:
surname Book editor(s) surname(s), Initial(s).,
Year) followed by ed. or eds. Title of book:
subtitle if any. Edition followed by ed. (if
not the first edition) Place of
publication: Publisher, page number(s)
of chapter.
Example
(Bruen 2020) Bruen, M. (2020). River flows. In: Kelly-
Quinn, M. and Reynolds, J., eds. Ireland’s
rivers. Dublin: University College Dublin
Press, pp.39-59.
E-book
In-text citation Reference list
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(Author Year) Author(s) surname(s), Initial(s).
(Year of publication). Title of e-
book: subtitle if any [online].
Edition followed by ed. (if not the
first edition) Place of publication
(if any): Publisher. Available from:
library database name, or URL if
accessed online from somewhere
other than a library database
[accessed date].
Examples
(Levine and Levine, L.E. and Munsch, J.
Munsch 2021) (2021). Child development: an
active learning approach [online].
4th ed. London: SAGE. Available
from:
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https://books.google.ie/books?
id=zlrZzQEACAAJ&dq [accessed
25 March 2022].
(Papagiannis 2020) Papagiannis, N. (2020). Effective
SEO and content marketing: the
ultimate guide for maximizing free
web traffic [online]. Indianapolis:
Wiley. Available from: EBSCOhost
eBook Collection [accessed 25
March 2022].
Full edited book Webpage

Use when referring to the entire book Material on the Web often falls into one of the material

In-text citation Reference list types already covered in this guide. Information
(Editor Year) Editor(s) surname(s), Initial(s)., followed by ed. published on the Web is not necessarily a webpage. In
or eds. (Year of publication). Title of book: such cases, follow the instructions for the material

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subtitle if any. Edition followed by ed. (if not the type in question (e.g. research report, e-book).
first edition) Place of publication: Publisher.
In-text citation Reference list

Example (Author/Owner Author/Owner of webpage. (Year

(Theaker 2012) Theaker, A., ed. (2012). The public relations Year) created or last updated). Title of
handbook. Abingdon: Routledge.
webpage [online]. Available from: URL
[accessed date].
Example
(Dundalk Dundalk Institute of Technology.
Institute of (2022). Research support [online].
Technology Available from:
2022) https://www.dkit.ie/research/research-
support.html [accessed 25 March
2022].

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