Harvard Reference Examples
These follow Cite Them Right, the most widely taught Harvard style. Note the pattern: the surname comes first with the year in brackets, the article or chapter title goes in 'single quotation marks', the journal or book name is in italics, and the whole list is alphabetical. (Harvard has many variants — always check anything specific your course requires.)
Journal article
McCauley, S.M. and Christiansen, M.H. (2019) 'Language learning as language use',
Psychological Review, 126(1), pp. 1–51.
Journal article (online, with DOI)
Anderson, M. (2018) 'Getting consistent with consequences', Educational Leadership,
76(1), pp. 26–33. https://doi.org/10.1000/xyz
Whole book
Sapolsky, R.M. (2017) Behave: the biology of humans at our best and worst. London:
Penguin.
Chapter in an edited book
Dillard, J.P. (2020) 'Currents in the study of persuasion', in Oliver, M.B. and Raney, A.A.
(eds.) Media effects: advances in theory and research. 4th edn. New York: Routledge,
pp. 115–129.
Web page
NHS (2022) Sleep and tiredness. Available at:
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/sleep-and-tiredness/ (Accessed: 14 October 2026).
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