The Reference List
A Few Basic Guidelines

  • The sources that you refer to in your text should be cited by name of the author (or authors) and the year of publication.

  • The reference list is a compilation of all the works that you cite within your text. This means that you do not include texts that you have not used in your essay.

  • Other names for this list include Works Cited or Literature Cited; the preferred name for the Harvard style is Reference List.

  • The reference list is arranged in this way:
    - Alphabetically by the author's surname, author's first name or initial. (year of publication), Title of the Book, edition [if not first], publisher's name, place of publication.

Examples:


Book with One Author

Gordon, Karen E. (1984), The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar
for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed, Times Books, New York.

Book with Author and Editor

Blaxter, P. (1976), Social health and class inequalities, in: Carter, C. & Peel, J.
(eds) Equalities and Inequalities in Health, 2nd ed, Academic Press, London

 

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