Harvard Referencing Generator (Cite Them Right)
Create Harvard references in Cite Them Right style: the reference list entry plus (Author, Year, p. x) citations, with Available at and Accessed dates.
Italicize in your document: "Champion of liberty: William Garrow". Copied plain text cannot carry italics.
Harvard is an author-date family of styles used across UK and Australian universities. There is no single official Harvard, so this generator follows Cite Them Right, the version most UK universities teach. It builds the reference-list entry and the in-text citation, (Author, Year) or (Author, Year, p. 12), for books, journal articles, chapters, web pages, newspaper articles, videos and reports. Online sources get "Available at" and an access date.
How to use this tool
- Choose the source type.
- Enter the authors as Family, Given names (one per line) or an organisation name.
- Fill in the year, title, journal or book details, place of publication and publisher, and the DOI or URL.
- For web sources, enter the date you viewed them; copy the entry and the citation.
Formula
Family, I. (Year) Title of book. Edition. Place: Publisher. · Family, I. (Year) ‘Title of article’, Journal, Volume(Issue), pp. x–y. Available at: DOI or URL (Accessed: date).
Initials are written without spaces (H.D.). Two or three authors are joined with "and"; four or more become the first author plus "et al." Book, web page and video titles are italic, while article and chapter titles take single quotation marks and their journal or book is italic. Editions are "2nd edn." A DOI needs no access date; a URL does. A work without a date shows "no date". Your university's guide has the final say, as Harvard variants differ in small details.
Example
John Hostettler's 2009 book from Waterside Press (Hook) is Hostettler, J. (2009) Champion of liberty: William Garrow. Hook: Waterside Press. A quotation from page 45 is cited (Hostettler, 2009, p. 45), or in a sentence as Hostettler (2009, p. 45).
Frequently asked questions
Is this the same as my university's Harvard?
Often, because many UK universities use Cite Them Right. Some departments use their own variant, for example a full stop after the year or "Retrieved from". Check your module handbook and adjust if needed.
What if I don't enter an access date?
For a URL, the tool uses today's date and says so. Change it to the day you actually viewed the page.
How are four or more authors written?
Following Cite Them Right, the first author is followed by et al. in both the citation and the reference list, for example (Young et al., 2015).
Sources
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