Harvard Reference System

Harvard Reference System

Well, well, look at all this attention I'm giving you mortals! All from my incompetence at keeping up with previous blog posts.

Just look at all this incompetence!

So, something I was supposed to blog about was a task of compiling a bibliography of various library items using their search engines; this would get me familiar with the Library's online tools as well as teach me the Harvard Reference System, the standard way of citing and referencing books and authors, I'm told.

Well, I'm a tad late, and I don't have the list of books and other resources I looked up, so here's a blog focusing on the Harvard Reference System to make up for that missed post.

The Harvard System of Referencing provides a format for showing the sources of various pieces of information in a separate piece of work, and for giving credit to other authors so you don't get sued for publishing part of something that's been copyrighted.

There are two primary elements to this system:

• Citations, which give references within the body of text, are given with simply the author's name and the date of published piece of work.
• References, which provide more information; citations require that references be present, usually at the end of a work piece. References include several pieces of information, laid out in the following format:

Surname, First name or initials, Year of publication. Title of article (if applicable). Title of publication, Page number within publication. Publisher.

So, for example, I might use the following:

"Bell, P.C., 1960. Board and Table Games from Many Civilisations, page 24. General Publishing Company, Canada."

Well, mortals, I'm tired, I have textures to draw for later today and coffee to drink. Have fun.

And, of course, praise to the Emperor.