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Enter the source details for a Harvard-style reference and in-text citation. Harvard is a family of styles rather than one standard, so check the output against your own institution's guide.
Author (Year) Title. Place: Publisher.
There is no single authority for Harvard referencing. Punctuation, italics and the treatment of multiple authors differ between universities, and each publishes its own guide.
(Smith 2019)
In-text citation. The full reference-list entry is below — check it against your own style guide edition before submitting.
1Smith, J. (2019) Research methods in practice. London: Routledge.
Order of elements: author, date, title, source, locator. Italics are not applied here — apply them to the source title in your document.
Harvard is a naming convention for author–date referencing, not a published standard, so two universities can both call their style Harvard and disagree about whether a journal title is italicised or where the page abbreviation goes. Because markers assess consistency against the local guide, the safest approach is to find that guide, follow it exactly, and use any generator only for element order.
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