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The Low Down: Harvard Referencing

Referencing BooksAUTHOR Jones,T.YEAR(2009)TITLE (written in Italics, or underlined if handwritten)How Harvard Referencing Changed my LifePLACEBridgwater.PUBLISHERPurple Pants Publications Ltd.

The complete reference

Jones, T. (2009) How Harvard Referencing changed my life. Bridgwater. Purple Pants Publications Ltd

When you quote or reference my exciting work in the text of your essay…This called a ‘citation’

1.Basic CitationThe importance of correct Harvard referencing is outlined in Jones (2009)

Citing quotations Whether you are quoting from a book, a website or any other source, it essential to acknowledge the source of all quotations and identify the page numbers if available…

2. Brief Quotation…you may briefly quote from my fabulous book...

Underlining the supreme significance of Harvard referencing it is important to understand that you will be guilty of ’ the theft of intellectual property’ (Jones,2009 p 12) if you fail to do so

3. Quoting more than three lines from my amazing book

As Trish Jones states in ‘How Harvard referencing changed my life’

‘Once acquired and understood, this is a life long learning skill that will immeasurably enrich the lives of all who use it, and guarantee the approval of teachers, everywhere.’ (Jones, 2009 p 13)

World Wide Web Documents: Identify the different elements as follows

1. Author/Editor. 2. Year of publication (if there is no

author, the year should follow the title) 3. Title in italics. 4. [Internet]. 5. Edition. 6. Place of publication (if known) 7. Publisher (if known). 8. Available from: <URL>. 9. [Accessed date].

The Reference looks like this…

Hawking, S. (2008) Public Lectures: the beginning of time. [Internet]. Available

from:<http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/lindex.html> [Accessed 20 August 2008].

How to cite and reference images from the web

The sources of images cited in your work should have bibliographical references to allow them to be located and to check the source and whether they are reproduced or seen in the originalIn the text of your essay the image should have..

ORIGINATOR (artist, photographer) (Year) Description or title of image , then [Online image ].

In your bibliography at the end…. Reference all Online images as follows

1. Artist (if known) 2. Year of publication (if there is no

author, the year should follow the title)

3. Title of image, or a description in italics

4. Year of publication. 5. [Online image]. 6. Available at: <URL>. 7. [Accessed date].

Your reference : It would look like this

Lee, R. (1940) Rodeo at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. [online image]. Available

at:<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html> [Accessed 18 August 2008].

Citing images. Books, or Museums where you saw them- In the text of your essay….

The citation is to where the image was found. example-from the book you are using it

would go… ‘as can be seen in Watteau’s painting ‘Les

deux cousines’. (Brookner, 1967, fig.25) (In the bibliography at the end you reference

the work by Brookner, the author, not Watteau the artist.)

If you saw the image in a museum or gallery you would cite (Watteau, 1761) because you saw it first hand

Your reference in the bibliography at the end would go like this..

Works of art seen in museums/art galleries 1. Artist 2. Title of the work in italics. 3. Year of creation. 4. Medium. 6. Location 7. Name of the gallery/museum. e.g. Constable, J. The hay wain. (1821), oil on

canvas, London: National Gallery.

The BibliographyGet Organised!

Keep a record of all your sources of information as you go along

Looking them up later is a pain in the Purple Pants

Your references must be presented in alphabetical order regardless of the different sources. Together, they form your BIBLIOGRAPHY