Citation style
Harvard referencing
A family of author–date styles with no single official version. Each institution publishes its own rules, so use your institution's guide.
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- No single authority: each institution publishes its own version
- Commonly used in
- Many universities, especially in the United Kingdom and Australia, across many subjects.
Guide and generator for one defined version of Harvard
Harvard has no single official version: universities publish their own, and they differ in punctuation and detail. ResearchKit's guide and generator follow one defined author-date profile, based on Cite Them Right, 13th edition, and explain each choice. They don't reproduce any university's version, so check your university's referencing requirements. The generator formats books, journal articles and web pages.
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Harvard Citation Generator
Formats Harvard references and author-date citations in a defined profile based on Cite Them Right.
Harvard Citations and References
Learn Harvard referencing: what it is, why versions differ between universities, how in-text citations such as (Smith, 2015, p. 23) lead to a reference list, and how to reference books, journal articles and web pages.
Reference Checker
Checks reference lists and citations in APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago, IEEE and Harvard for structure, missing details, duplicates, order and mismatched citations.