Harvard Referencing (Australian Government Author-date style)

In-text citation:

The most important period for behaviour development in dogs and cats is from 3 to 12 weeks (Sirois 2017:141).

Reference List:

Author's surname, Initials Year in brackets, Title in italics, Edition (if not the first), Publisher’s name, Place of publication.

Do not separate the family name from the initials with a comma and do not separate initials with full stops.

In-text citation:

In an effort to serve customer needs, Amazon was one of the early pioneers to develop software for collaborative filtering of customer data (Evans and Lindsay 2011:229).

Kotler, Bowen and Makens (2010:6) argue that the purpose of marketing is to provide real value to targeted customers, motivate purchase, and fulfill customer needs.

Reference list:

Surname Initials, Surname Initials and Surname, Initials Year in brackets, Title in italics, Edition (if not the first), Publisher’s name, Place of publication.

Do not separate the family name from the initials with a comma. Do not separate initials with full stops or a space.

Examples:

Evan JR and Lindsay WM (2011), Managing for quality and performance excellence, 8th edn, South-Western/Cengage Learning, Mason, Ohio.

Kotler P, Bowens, JT and Makens JC (2010), Marketing for hospitality and tourism, 5th edn, Pearson, Boston.

In-text citation:

Selection of suppliers should be based on a company's strategy, goals and objectives (Leenders et al. 2006:256).

OR

Leenders et al. (2006:256) stress the importance of basing supplier selection on the company's strategy, goals and objectives.

Reference list:

Surname Initials, Surname Initials,  Surname Initials and Surname, Initials. Year in brackets, Title in italics, Edition (if not the first), Publisher’s name, Place of publication

Leenders M, Johnson P, Flynn A and Fearon H (2006), Purchasing and supply management: with 50 supply chain cases, 13th edn, McGraw-Hill Irwin, New York.

Points to remember:

• Use the name of the first author plus the term 'et al.' e.g.: Smith et al. when you refer to the authors in your essay/assignment and in the intext citation but write all their names in the reference list.

In-text citation:

Use the title of the book in place of the family name of the author.

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabanna have the wonderful ability to '... dress a woman like a woman ... even if she wants to dress like a man' (10 years of Dolce & Gabanna 1996:136).

 Reference list:

Title in italics  date, publisher, Place of publication.

Example:

10 years of Dolce & Gabbana 1996, Leonardo Arte, Milan.

 Points to remember

• When this book is put in the reference list, it will be at the beginning of the list as numerals are placed before the alphabetical listing of authors and titles.
• Write the title just as it is on the cover of the book.
• Although only the intial letter of the first word should be a capital letter, in this case Dolce and Gabanna have initial capitals because they are both personal names.  Names of countries and organisations should also keep their capital letters.
• Remember to write the title in italics when you cite it in your assignment so that it's clear that it's the title.

Reference list :

Surname Initials (ed.) Year in brackets, Title in italics, Edition (if not the first), Publisher’s name, Place of publication.

Example:

Ackerman N (ed.) (2016), Aspinall's complete textbook of veterinary nursing, 3rd edn, Elsevier, Edinburgh.

In text citation:

It is thought that dogs and man first began to have a relationship in the Mesolithic period about 10,000 to 15,000 years ago (Ackerman 2016:190). 

Note:

There is no need to add (ed.) to the in-text citation for edited works.

In-text citation:

Clark (2005:168) notes the change in attitudes to second hand clothing in Hong Kong, which occurred in the 1990s.

OR

Second hand clothing, formerly only for those who could afford nothing else, became fashionable in Hong Kong society during the 1990s (Clark 2005).

Reference list:

Surname Initials (of the author of the chapter) Year in brackets, ‘Chapter title’, in Editor's Surname(s) and first initial (eds) Book title in italics, Edition (if not the first), Publisher, Place of publication.

Clark H (2005) 'Second hand fashion in Hong Kong', in Palmer A and Clark H (eds) Old clothes, new looks: second hand fashion, Berg Publishers, Oxford.

Jenner P (2002) 'The noble art of management', in Brown B (ed.) The MMF music manager's manual, Music Managers Forum (Australia), Surry Hills, N.S.W.

 Points to remember

• The abbreviation for 'editor' is ed. and the abbreviation for 'editors' is eds - watch the use of full-stops.
• The abbreviation for 'edition' is edn (without a full-stop).

The basic structure for referencing an online book is the same as for a print edition. As books are published in editions, you don’t need to include an accessed date. Include a DOI number at the end if available. The example below is for a book with a single author.

In-text citation

Storage-as-service is used by most Cloud Computing applications (Linthicum 2010)

Reference list:

Author's surname Initials Year in brackets, Title in italics, Edition (if not the first), Publisher’s name, Place of publication. 

Example:

Linthicum D (2010), Cloud computing and SOA convergence in your enterprise: a step by step guide, Addison-Wesley, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. 

In-text citation

Do not cite dictionaries and encyclopedias in your reference list at the end. Only cite it in your in-text citation. Where there is no author, use the title of the resource.

A lever (McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology 1997) operates by ....