Harvard
Referencing Style
Academic Learning Centre
Academic Communication
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The Abridged Guide to the Harvard Referencing Style (author-date) is based on
Commonwealth of Australia 2002, Style manual: for authors, editors and printers, 6th edn,
John Wiley & Sons Australia, Milton, Qld.
This document can be found on CQUniversity’s referencing Web site at http://www.cqu.edu.au/referencing (click on Harvard).
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Edition T1 2014
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Table of Contents
Why reference/cite? .....................................................................................................1
How to reference ..........................................................................................................1
In-text references..........................................................................................................1
Author-prominent .....................................................................................................1
Information-prominent .............................................................................................2
What is plagiarism? .......................................................................................................2
Paraphrasing