Harvard Style
The creator of Harvard style is considered to be Edward Laurens Mark, a professor of anatomy in the Harvard University. In his work in 1881 he used an author-date citation better known now as parenthetical referencing.
Since that time Harvard referencing style became very popular among scientists who write articles in humanities, history and social science.
Harvard reference style is used for giving two types of references - in-text and bibliography references.
As it was mentioned before Harvard style has two types of references. The first of them is the in text reference which is also called a citation. It is the easiest way to acquaint the reader with the source you used. All you need it to indicate the author`s surname and year of publication (e.g. Graddol 1997).
In case the work has more than one author you can indicate them using '&'. But you can't indicate more than six authors, just only the first three authors and that`s all. If it is possible add page numbers.
The reference list has some specific formatting rules:
- It must be in alphabetical order
- If there are several works of one author you should indicate them with each of these works. The usage of dashes is forbidden
- Periodical data - articles, journals and magazines should be mentioned with volume, page number and publisher indication.