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ENDICES
• Report number
• Book or conference editor (if not your primary author)
• Book or conference title (if not your primary title)
• Journal title (the journal article title will be your primary title)
• Date of access (for online material)
Writing a reference list using the Harvard style
This is your list of all the sources that have been cited in the work. The list is inclusive showing books,
journals, etc., listed in one list, not in separate lists according to source type.
• The list should be in alphabetical order by author/editor.
• Books, paper or electronic journal articles, etc., are written in a particular format that must be
followed.
• Your reference list contains all the items you have cited or directly quoted from.
• When you have used more than one piece of work by the same author, in your reference list you should
list the works in date order, beginning with the most recently published work.
Sometimes, especially when writing in a new field using an unfamiliar literature you read around the topic
considerably before settling on the references that you quote and cite to form your narrative argument. Should
you wish to include this reading to indicate to your examiner items you have consulted but not cited, the
addition of a bibliography might be useful. These items should be listed in alphabetical order by author and
laid out in the same way as items in your reference list. If you can cite from every work you consulted, you will
only need a reference list.
How to write references for your reference list (and bibliography):
Harvardstyle
Remember: accurate and consistent referencing is an important part of your academic work.
You may be used to referencing in another style in your primary discipline and you will likely be much more
used to the literature – writing in an academic style in education is likely to be different!
Below is a list of the information required to write a reference in the Harvard style for a number of commonly
used sources; each with an illustrative example.
Book: print
Author/Editor (if it is an editor always put (ed.) after the name or (eds.) if there are multiple editors)
(Year of publication)
EDU © Imperial College London 2014-15 97
• Report number
• Book or conference editor (if not your primary author)
• Book or conference title (if not your primary title)
• Journal title (the journal article title will be your primary title)
• Date of access (for online material)
Writing a reference list using the Harvard style
This is your list of all the sources that have been cited in the work. The list is inclusive showing books,
journals, etc., listed in one list, not in separate lists according to source type.
• The list should be in alphabetical order by author/editor.
• Books, paper or electronic journal articles, etc., are written in a particular format that must be
followed.
• Your reference list contains all the items you have cited or directly quoted from.
• When you have used more than one piece of work by the same author, in your reference list you should
list the works in date order, beginning with the most recently published work.
Sometimes, especially when writing in a new field using an unfamiliar literature you read around the topic
considerably before settling on the references that you quote and cite to form your narrative argument. Should
you wish to include this reading to indicate to your examiner items you have consulted but not cited, the
addition of a bibliography might be useful. These items should be listed in alphabetical order by author and
laid out in the same way as items in your reference list. If you can cite from every work you consulted, you will
only need a reference list.
How to write references for your reference list (and bibliography):
Harvardstyle
Remember: accurate and consistent referencing is an important part of your academic work.
You may be used to referencing in another style in your primary discipline and you will likely be much more
used to the literature – writing in an academic style in education is likely to be different!
Below is a list of the information required to write a reference in the Harvard style for a number of commonly
used sources; each with an illustrative example.
Book: print
Author/Editor (if it is an editor always put (ed.) after the name or (eds.) if there are multiple editors)
(Year of publication)
EDU © Imperial College London 2014-15 97
