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 Unpublished dissertations and theses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

Unpublished dissertations and theses

Dissertations and theses are examples of academic work and therefore must be cited properly if they have been used as a source, even though they may be unpublished. Reference list entries should include:

• The name of the author
• The year of completion
• The title of the work - in italics
• Type of work - 'Thesis', 'dissertation' etc
• Level of degree - in brackets
• Name of the institution to which the work was submitted.

Example