HARVARD STYLE GUIDE

Getting started.
To create a reference list you will need, for each item you include, the following information:
Book: author or editor; year of publication; title; edition; place of publication and publisher
Journal article: author ; year of publication; title of article; journal title; volume/issue number; page numbers of the
article
Electronic information: author/editor; year of publication; article title; journal title; web URL,/name of database;
date accessed

Book with one author
Author's last name, First and Second Initial. (Year) Title italic. Place of Publication: Publishing company.
Example: McDonagh, S. (2001) Why are we Deaf to the Cry of the Earth. Dublin: Veritas

Book with an editor
Editor's last name, First and Second Initial. (Ed.). (Year) Title italic. place of Publication: Publishing company.
Example: O'Riordan, T. (Ed.). (2001) Globalism, Localism and Identity. London: Earthscan.

Chapter in an edited book
Author's last name, First and Second Initial. (Year) 'Chapter title'. in Book title, (Editor's(s) name and initials.
ed(s)),place of Publication, Publishing company.
Example: Rose, H. (2000) 'Risk, Trust and Sceptism in the Age of the New Genetics'. in Adam, B. et al. eds. Risk
Society and Beyond. London: Sage

Journal article - print
Author's last name, First and Second Initial. (Year) 'Article title'. Journal title, Volume number(Part), page numbers.
Example: Tovey. H. (2002).'Risk, Morality, and the Sociology of Animals - Reflections of the Foot and Mouth
Outbreak in Ireland'. Irish Journal of Sociology, 11 (1):23-42.
For all citations:
Use the specific punctuation, layout and abbreviations
given
Alphabetise your list of citations by author/editor surname
If no author is given, start with the title
If more than one entry for an author put in date of
publication order
If no date of publication is available, use (undated) or (no
date) instead of the date -showing you haven't just
forgotten to include the date

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Electronic article
Electronic article Author's last name, First and Second Initial. (Year) Article title.Journal title [Internet], Date of
publication,Volume(issue), page numbers. Available from: <internet address> [Accessed date].
Example: Hawke, J. L. et al, Genetic influences on reading difficulties in boys and girls: the Colorado twin study
(2006). Dyslexia. [Internet]. Available from: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-
bin/fulltext/112098736/PDFSTART [Accessed 10 February 2006].
Newspaper article
Author's last name, First and Second Initial. (Year) Article title. Newspaper title, date, page numbers.
Example: O'Dea, W. (2006) Irish role in battlegroup concept will help to bolster UN. Irish Times, 10 January, p.16.

Page on a Website
Webpage author's last name, First and Second Initial. (Year) Article title [Internet], edition if available eg. update or
version 4.1.Place of publication, Publisher if ascertainable. Available from:<internet address> [Accessed Date]
Example: Kelly, M. et al (2004) Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours: Ireland in Comparative European
Perspective [Internet] Dublin Social Science Research Centre, University College Dublin Available
from:<http://www.ucd.ie/environ/home.htm> [Accessed 8 February 2006]

Website
Website name. (Year) Website [Internet] .Place of publication, Publisher if ascertainable. Available from:<internet
address> [Accessed Date]
Example: International Tourism Partnership (2004) International Tourism Partnership (ITP) [Internet] London, ITP
Available from:<http://www.internationaltourismpartnership.org/> [Accessed 8 February 2006]