How to Compile a Bibliography using the Harvard

How to Compile a Bibliography using the Harvard Referencing System East Midlands Information Skills Presentation Title Here 18 pt Arial

Why Compile a Bibliography? • To give substance to your assignments and reports • To give strength and authority to your arguments and opinions • To keep an accurate record of your sources so that you can • find them again • To enable others to evaluate your research and check sources • for themselves East Midlands Information Skills Presentation Title Here 18 pt Arial

What to Remember • All entries in a bibliography should be consistent – they should follow the same format in every case • The golden rule – all entries should be in alphabetical order using the author’s surname East Midlands Information Skills Presentation Title Here 18 pt Arial

How to Cite Book Entries • Author (Date of publication) Title, Edition (if not the 1 st edition), Place, Publisher. Like this: Haydock, S. and Smith S. (1994) The learning resource service, 2 nd ed, London, Pitman. East Midlands Information Skills Presentation Title Here 18 pt Arial

How to Cite Book Entries MORE THAN ONE AUTHOR: • If there are more than 3 authors give the surname of the first author and follow with et al. Like this: Halfpenny, J. et al (1996) How to produce a bibliography, 5 th ed, London, Oxford Press. EDITED BOOKS: • Where a book has been edited you use ed. for a single editor or eds for more than one editor. Like this: Chadwick, E. and Allison, J. (eds) (1995) Eating yourself healthy, London, Hodder and Stoughton. East Midlands Information Skills Presentation Title Here 18 pt Arial

How to Cite Book Entries CONTRIBUTIONS IN EDITED BOOKS: • Contributing author’s name (date) ‘title of contribution’ (this may be the chapter heading): editor’s name (ed), title of book, edition, page numbers where contribution appears, place of publication, publisher. Like this: Hellawell, A. (1994) ‘The Apple Mac explained’ in: Frankland, D. (ed) A complete guide to IT, pp 210 -214, London, Kogan Page. East Midlands Information Skills Presentation Title Here 18 pt Arial

How to Cite Journal Articles • Name of author (year) ‘title of article’, name of journal, volume number, part number, page numbers. Like this: Sutton, K. and Smith, W. (1997) ‘Resource based learning for university’ in: Further Education today, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp 19 -23. East Midlands Information Skills Presentation Title Here 18 pt Arial

How to Cite Newspaper Articles • Use this format when quoting from or referring to an article in a newspaper. Name of writer (year) ‘title of article’, name of paper, day and month, page number. Like this: Barr, J. and Wright, E. (1996) ‘The effect of IT in libraries’, The Sunday Times, 5 Dec, p 23. East Midlands Information Skills Presentation Title Here 18 pt Arial

How to Cite Electronic Sources • Constructor (e. g. organisation or person) (Year) Title of resource (e. g. CD-Rom, e-mail, website), Organisation responsible (optional), Available from: URL address [date accessed]. Like this: De Montfort University Library (2005) The Harvard system of referencing (WWW), Leicester, De Montfort University. Available from: http: //images. library. dmu. ac. uk/Selfstudy/Harvard. pdf [Accessed 22/5/06]. East Midlands Information Skills Presentation Title Here 18 pt Arial

How to Cite Electronic Journals • For electronic journal articles use the same format used for a print journal and add the type of resource, URL and date accessed (as for electronic sources). Like this: Smith, J. (2005) ‘References: understanding the thirdperson effect’ in: Communication Research Trends, Vol. 24, Issue 2, June, pp 15 -23. Accessed through Infotrac Onefile, Thomson Gale, Loughborough College at: http: //find. galegroup. com/itx/infomark. do? &content. Set=IAC[date accessed 23/5/06]. East Midlands Information Skills Presentation Title Here 18 pt Arial

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