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APPENDICES
Citing using the Harvard style
There are a number of rules relating to citations depending on the number of authors of a work, and if you are
citing a quotation.
When you use another person’s work in your own work, either by referring to their ideas, or by including
a direct quotation, you must acknowledge this in the text of your work. This acknowledgement is called a
citation.
When you are using the Harvard style, your citation in your text should include:
• The author or editor of the cited work
• The year of publication of the cited work
Citing one author
Vygotsky (1978) sees learning as situated: inextricable from, and influenced by, cultural and social settings.
Or
Learning can be seen as situated: inextricable from, and influenced by, cultural and social settings (Vygotsky,
1978).
Citing two or three authors
If the work has two or three authors, include all names in your citation.
Early interpretations of Lave and Wenger’s ideas equated them with experiential learning as conceived by
Kolb (Kolb & Fry, 1975).
PBL is also one of its advantages as the practice of medicine involves dealing with uncertainty and PBL
students may be advantaged by early exposure to this (Jones, McArdle & O’Neill, 2002).
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Citing using the Harvard style
There are a number of rules relating to citations depending on the number of authors of a work, and if you are
citing a quotation.
When you use another person’s work in your own work, either by referring to their ideas, or by including
a direct quotation, you must acknowledge this in the text of your work. This acknowledgement is called a
citation.
When you are using the Harvard style, your citation in your text should include:
• The author or editor of the cited work
• The year of publication of the cited work
Citing one author
Vygotsky (1978) sees learning as situated: inextricable from, and influenced by, cultural and social settings.
Or
Learning can be seen as situated: inextricable from, and influenced by, cultural and social settings (Vygotsky,
1978).
Citing two or three authors
If the work has two or three authors, include all names in your citation.
Early interpretations of Lave and Wenger’s ideas equated them with experiential learning as conceived by
Kolb (Kolb & Fry, 1975).
PBL is also one of its advantages as the practice of medicine involves dealing with uncertainty and PBL
students may be advantaged by early exposure to this (Jones, McArdle & O’Neill, 2002).
90 EDU © Imperial College London 2014-15
