Harvard Referencing-Week 3

Question 1

Referencing as a Scholarly Convention

Answer 1

Scholars have to identify sources. This enables other scholars to evaluate and respond to a colleague’s views, thus furthering the research. This community approach maintains high standards and academic rigour.

Question 2

Harvard System

Answer 2

AKA author/date system.

Not based on a singular source document.

Question 3

Two elements in Harvard

Answer 3

1, In-text citations, AKA short references and in-text references, which lists, usually at the end of a sentence, phrase, or clause or after a quotation, the: author, year of publication, page number in brackets.
2, Full publication details for all sources referred to in a work: mentioned in passing, summarised, paraphrased, quoted directly. Each in-text reference in an essay must have a matching entry in a Reference List.

Question 4

In-text referencing-Harvard

Answer 4

Each ini-text referencing must have a partner in the referencing list.
In-text referencing is a form of short hand referencing
Don’t put capital letters when referencing-used to be like this not anymore, updated version.

Question 5

Terminology

Answer 5

Terminology-same meaning: list of references, reference list, works cited. Each of them is an alphabetical list-by author’s family names of sources to which a writer directly or indirectly refers.
What is means is that the writer has referred to that particular source.
Bibliography is an alphabetical list by author’s family names of ALL sources accessed whether or not they are cited where as the others mentioned have to be cited…

Question 6

Simple basic rules

Answer 6

Who wrote it?
When was it published?
What is the title?
Who published it?
Where was it published?

Question 7

Simple Basic Rules-Articles

Answer 7

Who wrote the article?
When was it published?
What is the title of the article?
In which journal did it appear?
In which volume and issue number of the journal?
Which pages?

Question 8

Most common errors

Answer 8

Sequencing of all required information
Placement of commas and full stops
Use of UPPER and lower case in titles
Use of plaintext and italics in titles

Question 9

What if information is missing?

Answer 9

1. Return to based simple rules protocol.

2. You can use the guide and apply rules from different parts

Question 10

What if you have additional information?

Answer 10

E.g. Book that has a translation with the name of a translator, has an introduction by someone noteable, is part of a special series.
Title of book first then after any extra information.

Question 11

Tips

Answer 11

Don’t rely on memory
When in doubt, recall and follow the basic rules of referencing
The guides are just guides, it won’t have every possible combination of information but you can use it to assist in making sensible decisions.