assignment 84

Harvard Referencing (CQ University) Guidelines

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How to Reference Your Sources

When taking information from any source, you need to give credit to show where you took the information

from. This is called referencing. If you do not do this, it is considered plagiarism (i.e. cheating) as it means

you are saying that you are the source of the information.

This could include information from any of the following types of sources:

 A website article

 A journal (online or hardcopy)

 A book (online or hardcopy)

 A newspaper (online or hardcopy)

There are many different ways of making a reference (i.e. APA, MLA, ISO690, Harvard). In this course, you

will be required to reference your sources using the Harvard Referencing (CQ University) style.

Harvard Referencing (CQ University)

For most of your units in your diploma studies, you will be asked to referencing using this style of referencing.

Make sure you understand how to do this properly.

NOTE: There are many different types of Harvard Referencing (i.e. Harvard Anglia, Harvard Victoria

University, etc.). Do not just google any Harvard Referencing style as there are slight differences between

them!

IF YOU ARE NOT SURE HOW TO WRITE IT, LOOK AT THE EXAMPLES!!!!

To see more detail on how to reference using this style, please refer to the Harvard Referencing Guidelines

(CQ University) on Moodle.

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Online Articles (Harvard Referencing, CQ University Style)

In order to reference an online article (i.e. a website), you need to first find the following information:

 Author(s) / Organization Who wrote it?

 Year of Publication When was it written?

 Title of Article What is the name of the article?

 Date of viewing When did you find the information?

 URL address Where exactly did you take the information from?

Once you have the information you need, it is easy to put it together in the correct format, in the

following order:

Author(s) / Organization Example

Put the surname + first Initial (i.e. first letter of the first name) Smith, J

 Put a comma between the surname and initial

 Do NOT put a comma after any initial

 If there are 2 authors, join them using “&” Smith, J & Jones, K

 If there are 3 or more authors, use “et. al” Smith, J et. al

 If there is no author, put the website page Student Zone

 Do NOT put a comma at the end

Year of Publication Example

Put the year that the article was written 2014,

 You do not need to put the day or month

 Put a comma after the year

 If there is no date, put n.d. then a comma n.d.,

Title Example

Put the title of the article in italics!!! Harvard referencing guidelines,

 Add a comma after the title Facts about life in Kuwait,

 Use minimal capitals (i.e. capitalize only the first word and

then any words which require capital letters

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Date of Viewing Example

Put the date that you found the information viewed 21 February 2017,

 Start with “viewed”

 Then write it as day + month (in words!!!) + year

 Add a comma only at the end (no comma between month and year!)

URL Address Example

Put the specific URL address www.ack.edu.kw/referencing_Harvard.com

 Make sure you use the specific address

 Make sure the link is underlined

 Make sure the link is black (NOT blue!)

 Do NOT add a full stop at the end

When you put it all together, it should look like this:

Example 1 (1 author + date)

Smith, J 2014, Harvard referencing guide, viewed 21 February 2017,

www.ack.edu.kw/referencing_Harvard.com

Example 2 (2 authors + no date)

Smith, J & Jones, K n.d., Harvard referencing guide, viewed 21 February 2017,

www.ack.edu.kw/referencing_Harvard.com

Example 3 (no author + date)

Student Zone 2014, Harvard referencing guide, viewed 21 February 2017,

www.ack.edu.kw/referencing_Harvard.com

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Academic Journals (Harvard Referencing, CQ University Style)

In order to reference an academic journal, you need to first find the following information:

 Author(s) Who wrote it?

 Year of Publication When was it written?

 Title of Article What is the name of the article?

 Name of Journal Where was it published?

 Journal Volume & Issue Number Identify this from under the journal name

 Journal page numbers At which journal page numbers do the article start and endt?

 Date of viewing (online!) When did you find the information?

 URL address/database (online!) Where exactly did you take the information from?

Once you have the information you need, it is easy to put it together in the correct format, in the

following order:

Author(s) / Organization (Same as article!) Example

Put the surname + first Initial (i.e. first letter of the first name) Smith, J

 Put a comma between the surname and initial

 Do NOT put a comma after any initial

 If there are 2 authors, join them using “&” Smith, J & Jones, K

 If there are 3 or more authors, use “et. al” Smith, J et. al

 If there is no author, put the website page Student Zone

 Do NOT put a comma at the end

Year of Publication (Same as article!) Example

Put the year that the article was written

 You do not need to put the day or month—just the year! 2014,

If there is no date, put n.d. n.d.,

(small letters with a full stop after each letter)

 Put a comma at the end

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Title Example

Put the title of the article in single quote marks!!! ‘Harvard referencing guidelines’,

 Use minimized capitals (i.e. capitalize only the first word and ‘Interesting facts about Kuwait’,

then any words which require capital letters)

 Do NOT use italics

 Add a comma at the end

Journal Name Example

Put the journal name in italics!!! Journal of Academic Excellence,

 Use maximized capitals (i.e. capitalize all words you would Business Journal of the Middle East,

Normally make capital in a title)

 Add a comma after the journal name

Journal Volume & Issue Number Example

Put the volume vol. 25, Vol 25

 Use vol. + # + comma Volume 25

(small v and a full stop at the end)

Followed by the issue number no. 3, Number 5

 Use no. + # + comma 4(34)

(small n and a full stop at the end)

Journal Page Numbers Example

Only include the page numbers you are taking info from!

 Use p. for one page only (small p, not a capital!) p. 1 page 1

 Use pp. for more than one page pp. 345—359. Pages 345—359

 Leave a space after p. and pp.

 Put a full stop at the end (for hard copy journals) pp. 345—359. P 345—359

 Put a comma at the end (for online journals) pp. 345—359, pp345—359

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If you got the Journal from an Online Source:

Add the date you viewed it and the URL link (same as you would for an article.

Date of Viewing (Same as article!) Example

Put the date that you found the information viewed 21 February 2017,

 Start with “viewed”

 Then write it as day + month (in words!!!) + year

 Add a comma only at the end (no comma between month and year!)

URL Address (Same as article!) Example

Put the specific URL address www.ack.edu.kw/referencing_Harvard.com

 Make sure you use the specific address

 Make sure it is underlined

 Make sure it is black (NOT blue!)

 Do NOT add a full stop at the end

When you put it all together, it should look like this:

Example 1 (1 author + date—information from one page only) FROM A HARD COPY SOURCE

Triggle, N 2013, ‘An in-depth look at the referencing system of CQ University’, Journal of Academic

Discovery, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 5.

Example 2 (1 author—information from one page only) FROM AN INTERNET SOURCE

Triggle, N 2013, ‘An in-depth look at the referencing system of CQ University’, Journal of Academic

Discovery, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 5, viewed 25 October 2017, www.learning_academy/referencing/Harvard.edu

Example 3 (2 authors—information from more than one page)

William, R & Harrison T 2010, ‘How to reference internet sources correctly’, Journal of Writing, vol. 4, no.

3, pp. 2—4.

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= for one author

= If 2 articles by the same author, put them in order from earliest to latest publication date

= for 2 authors

More than 2 authors = for 3 authors

= If there is no date, use n.d.

= If there are no authors, use the name of organization

= online journal (when using information taken from only one page)

= hard copy journal (when using information taken from multiple pages)

= If there are 3 or more authors—use “et al.” in the in-text citation but list all authors in the reference list

instead of writing all the names

NOTE: When referencing your sources…

 Put sources in alphabetical order according to the author’s surname. If there are more than one source

by the same author, put the oldest one first.

 Make sure the URL links are black, not blue.

 Minimize capitalization with the title (i.e. only make the first letter a capital) but use normal

capitalization with the journal name.

Sample Reference List: Showing Different Formats

Adams, R 2014, Basic guide to Harvard referencing, viewed 18 October 2017, www.academy-

now/Referencing-Harvard/html

Adams, R 2016, The need to reference, viewed 19 October 2017, www.academy-now/Referencing-

Importance/html

Baker, T & Jones, K 2011, Harvard referencing guide, viewed 21 October 2017,

www.ack.edu.kw/referencing_Harvard/html

Cane, R, Smith, J, T & Jones, K 2017, The complete Harvard referencing guide, viewed 21 October 2017,

www.ack.edu.kw/referencing_Harvard/complete_guide/html

Robbins, SP, Millett, B, Cacioppe, R & Waters-Marsh, T 2017, The complete Harvard referencing guide,

viewed 21 October 2017, www.ack.edu.kw/referencing_Harvard/complete_guide/html

Osborn, M n.d., How to reference sources, viewed 21 February 2017,

www.reachouttowriter.edu/referencingstyles/Harvard.hmtl

The Learning Academy 2017, Harvard referencing tips, viewed 25 October 2017,

www.learning_academy/referencing/Harvard.edu

Triggle, N 2013, ‘An in-depth look at the referencing system of CQ University’, Journal of Academic

Discovery, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 5, viewed 25 October 2017, www.learning_academy/referencing/Harvard.edu

William, R 2010, ‘How to reference sources correctly’, Journal of Writing, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 2—4.

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General Referencing Guidelines

Please make sure your reference list meets the following guidelines.

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SAMPLES: Harvard Referencing (CQ University)

Please check the following samples to make sure your formatting is correct.

To Reference a Website Article:

To Reference a Journal:

Hard Copy Journal:

Online Journal:

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To Reference a Book (with one author):

For further details and samples of how to reference using the Harvard Referencing, CQ University format,

please refer to the Harvard Referencing Guidelines (CQU) which you can find on Moodle.