A Guide to Referencing your Work

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Modern Humanities Research Association
3. Harvard (author-date) referencing system
   1. Citing sources in the text
   2. Sources with multiple authors
   3. Multiple sources by the same author
   4. Citing sources quoted in another source
   5. Reference list
   6. Books
   7. Books with more than one author
   8. Books with an editor or translator
   9. Chapters or articles from books
   10. Articles from journals
   11. Articles from newspapers and magazines
   12. Unpublished dissertations and theses
   13. Online sources
   14. Articles from electronic journals
   15. Recorded media - films, music, sound recordings etc.
   16. Variations on the Author-date system
4. Revision Exercises

Recorded media - films, music, sound recordings etc.

Speech or music recordings

Reference list entries for recordings of speech or music should include, where applicable:

• Name of the author/composer
• Date
• Title
• Artist/orchestra/actor etc
• Conductor
• Place of publication
• Publisher

Examples

Films and Video

Reference list entries to films and other video recordings should be made in a similar way to sound recordings, including the following:

• Title - in italics
• Date
• Description - e.g. 'film', 'video' etc.
• Director - after 'Dir.' - surname in CAPITALS
• Leading actors/artists
• Distributor
• Reference number

Examples