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Harvard Referencing

This guide shows students and staff how to reference using the Harvard Referencing style.

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Many web search engines utilise Boolean search logic (Wagner 1996) however...

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Wagner, G. S. 1996, 'Surfing with Boolean! Where are the challengers?', in Electronic dream? Virtual nightmare the reality for Libraries VALA Biennial Conference Proceedings, VALA, Melbourne, pp. 127-135.

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Powell (2016) writes that .....

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Powell, S. J. 2016, 'Connecting with children: A Deleuzian contemplation of being and becoming' in 2016 AARE Annual Conference Proceedings, AARE, Melbourne, pp. 1-8, Retrieved: 14 April, 2020, from https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED591865.pdf

Thesis

Include the type of thesis, and the educational institute after the title of the work. The location is not given. No italics are used.

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Gruber (2008) posited that.....

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Gruber B. A. 2008, 'The impact of social networking technologies on undergraduate study patterns', MEd. thesis, University of Melbourne.

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It has been observed (Tang, 2004) that ...

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Tang, J. 2004, 'Educational reform and the emergence of modern libraries in China with special reference to the Metropolitan Library of Beijing, 1909-1937', PhD. thesis, University of Western Sydney, Retrieved: 23 December 2019, from https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws%3A3588/datastream/PDF/view