A brief note on harvard referencing

There are quite a lot of resources on harvard  referencing in the Internet. What I do is to provide a few illustrations on how to do proper harvard referencing; after learning these few examples, you should refer to more detailed guidelines in the Internet.

A. On references

The examples I take are from Saunders et al. (2009). You should use this format in your reference list and be consistent in your formatting.

Example 1: a book (1 writer)
Moustakas, C. (1994) Phenonmenological Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Example 2: a book (2 writers)
Phillips, N. and Hardy, C. (2002) Discourse Analysis: Investigating Processes of Social Construction. London: Sage.

Example 3: An article in a handbook with editors
Johnson, P. (2004) "Aalytic indiction", in C. Cassell and G. Symon (eds) Essential Guide to Qualitative Methods and Analysis in Organizational Research. London: Sage, pp. 165-179.

Example 4: An academic article
Becken, S. (2007) "Tourist perception of international air travel's impact on global climate and potential climate change policies", Journal of Sustainable Tourism Vol. 15  (4), pp. 351-360.

Example 5: an article in Internet
Dragon's Den (2007) Series, Episode 1. Beach Break Live. British Broadcasting Corporation Television broadcast, 15 Oct. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/ series5/episode1.shtml [Accessed 8 June 2008.]


B. On referencing
 As to referencing, I use the following extract from Ho (1997) for illustration:

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Logistics can be defined as 'the organisation, planning, implementation and control of the acquisition, transport, and storage activities from the purchase of raw materials up to the delivery of finished products to the customers' (Broeke et al, 1989). For Mather (1988), logistics is operations planning and control.
......

Logisticians may share the view of Stannack (1996a) on purchasing and supply chain management....


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I highlight the main referencing practices with different font colors to facilitate your learning on how to do referencing. You need to note that there are two topics here: (a) on references and (b) on referencing.



 References

1. Ho, J.K.K. (1997) "What can contemporary systems thinking offer to logistics management as a management discipline", European Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management, Vol. 1(2), pp. 77-81.
2. Saunders, M., Lewis, P. and Thorhhill, A. (2009) Rsearch methods for business students, 5th edition, Prentice Hall.
3. On harvard referencing:  http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm