Waste No Time. Get Straight to Cite Using Harvard Citation Generator

One Author and Pages

Citations can be direct and indirect. Direct citations entail mentioning the author right in text itself. Indirect ones mean that you provide information from source and put the author’s name into parenthesis.

If you’re referring to text in general, all you need is author and date. In case of direct citation, format your reference like this.

When using indirect citations, follow this example.

When you’re referring to specific moments from a source or use direct quotes, you’re going to need page numbers. This is how they should be formatted.

if you’re mentioning/quoting moments from several pages, use ‘pp.’ instead of ‘p.’ and list them through the hyphen.   

No Date

As it was already stated, dates are crucial. Still, you might find a source where no date is present. You can’t rely on the Harvard referencing tools in such cases because it is very strict about using dates no matter what.

Check the content and its medium to find an approximate date. For example, there is no date visible in your article, but there is a year mentioned for those pieces published right before and after it. Logically, yours was created in the same year. If you’re not certain, mention it like this:

If things are trickier than that, try to establish a decade of publication. For example, use (199-) if you’re sure about your found date or put (199?) if you’re not entirely confident. However, if the date cannot be identified, you can also use n.d. for “not dated”.    

Two-Three Authors

When source has several authors, use Harvard citation generator tool or remember these rules. Mention them with the help of ‘and’ both in text and in parenthesis. Everything else remains the same as in instance with one author.  

Do the same for three authors:

More Than Three Authors

For four or more authors in Harvard citations, you’ll have to use ‘et al.’ Pay attention to punctuation.

No Known Author

Unlike in other styles, Harvard referencing generator requires the usage of source’s creator. If you can’t find him/her, mention them as ‘Anonymous’ or ‘Anon.’ in short. Other rules remain the same.

Multiple Sources in One Citation

Combining several sources in one citation is a task you have to do manually as the Harvard reference generator can’t know what authors combinations you’re using. It’s quite easy, just follow this example.

In parenthesis, separate chosen writing professionals with a semicolon:

Authors with the Same Last Name

Harvard citation generator also won’t assist you in the instance if there are authors who share one last name in your work. To avoid confusion, give their first names’ initials and use dates of works to distinguish them.

It’ll look like this:

Several Works by One Author

Often, you have to use several sources authored by one person. If they were created in different years, this will be the point of distinction: just don’t forget to keep mentioning the year every time after the author’s name.

When author published several works in one year, differentiate them through lowercase letters alphabetically. For example:

Organizations

Treat organizations like you would authors, just use their names instead of actual people’s last names.

For instance:

Electronic Sources

These sources don’t differ from physically published ones much, they simply lack pages. So, you’ll just need authors’ last names and date.

Articles

For journal articles, you’re going to need volume and issue numbers. Remember that journals’ and magazines’ titles must be in italics while titles of articles shouldn’t be formatted. For academic journals, this  general structure is needed.

See below for clearer articles referencing structure understanding.

For online newspapers’ articles, the following structure is needed:

Electronic Websites

There are many kinds of useful websites. To cite them, just use all available info. Capitalize the document’s title (unless it’s an article).

Chapter From a Book

If you’re interested only in one chapter of some book, you should cite it separately instead of referencing the entire source. Just add “Ch. 4” (or a number you need) at the very end. If this book has editors, mention them but start reference from name of the author whose chapter/story you’ve used. Mention the date of a specific story and of book itself. It’ll look like this:

E-books

In our modern time, e-books are increasingly popular. When using one, mention what you normally would about published professionals but add a link through which it was accessed.

Conference Papers

Be very attentive when citing academic conference papers. Mention all data provided below:

Books with One Author

General Harvard referencing for books will look like this.

Don’t forget that books’ titles must be capitalized and see specific examples for more clarity.  

For editions other than first, place number of the edition after title.

Books with Many Authors

For many authors, use the Harvard referencing generator to avoid mistakes. If you’re doing it manually, remember that you must list all authors in the order they’re mentioned in the source itself. Put ‘and’ before the final name.

Check a more specific example below.

Patents

For patents, check this template.

Lecture Notes

When using lecture notes provided by the professor, Harvard referencing generator won’t be able to help. If you’re providing a paper for an audience who’s not your professor, include them in Appendix.