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A brief guide to the Harvard System The University of Greenwich, as with all universities, requires that students give credit to the authors of the evidence they use to support the arguments within their essays and other assignments. Most schools within the University require that students use the Harvard system of referencing (citation). This is a guide to that system giving some useful examples to which you can refer when referencing yourself. Function A bibliographical reference should contain sufficient information for you or someone else to trace the information sources you have used. It indicates that you have considered appropriate authorities and evidence in your work It acknowledges the work of others in contributing to your work. The same set of rules and grammar (colons and commas) should be followed every time you cite a reference (consistency). Note – you ought to follow the convention of referencing dictated by your school or tutor, normally the Harvard system. The components of the Harvard system The Harvard system has two main components. Firstly there is the in-text reference. Fore each item of evidence that you use from an external source (a book, a journal article etc.) there is an entry that includes the author’s family name and the year of the publication (source) that the information comes from. Note that for a quotation there will also be the page number for the page that the quotation came from. This works in conjunction with the second element which is known as a reference list (sometimes known as a Bibliography). This is an alphabetical list (by the author’s last name) which includes the full bibliographical details of the book which would enable the reader to find that source if they so wished. The in-text reference to the author’s last name can be looked up in this list and the full detail found. As you can see then, the system requires both element of in-text reference and reference list to work. Examples of how to do both elements are s