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QUT Harvard Referencing
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2. Papertrix. (2005). Bibliography. [Image]. Retrieved May 6, 2010 from http://www.flickr.com/photos/papertrix/38028138/
Why QUT Harvard is a better option...

4. Attributing your ideas
In academic writing,
support your response
with evidence, ideas, or
quotes from your
research.
When you paraphrase,
summarise or quote
another author’s work,
include an in-text citation.

5. There are two parts to a reference...
Paraphrase
1
In-text
Direct quote
Summary
References
Gamson, W. A. 1992. The social psychology of collective action. In Frontiers in social
2
movement theory, edited by A. Morris and C. McClung Mueller. New Haven:
Yale University Press.
Klandermans, B. 1997. Social psychology of protest. Boston: Blackwell.
McAdam, D., J. D. McCarthy and M. N. Zald. 1996. Introductions, opportunities,
mobilizing structures, and forming processes: Toward a synthetic comparative
perspective on social move-ments. In Comparative perspectives on social
movements,, J. D. McCarthy and M. N. Zald. Cambridge: Cambridge
Reference list University Press.
Noonan, R. 1997. Women against the state. In Social movements: Readings on their
emergence, mobi-lization, and dynamics, ed. D. McAdam and D. Snow. Los
Angeles: Roxbury.

6. 1
Every reference
in the text of
the essay....
In-text
References
Gamson, W. A. 1992. The social psychology of collective action. In Frontiers in social
2
movement theory, edited by A. Morris and C. McClung Mueller. New Haven:
Yale University Press.
... Must have a
corresponding Klandermans, B. 1997. Social psychology of protest. Boston: Blackwell.
entry in the full McAdam, D., J. D. McCarthy and M. N. Zald. 1996. Introductions, opportunities,
mobilizing structures, and forming processes: Toward a synthetic comparative
reference list perspective on social move-ments. In Comparative perspectives on social
Reference list movements,, J. D. McCarthy and M. N. Zald. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Noonan, R. 1997. Women against the state. In Social movements: Readings on their
emergence, mobi-lization, and dynamics, ed. D. McAdam and D. Snow. Los
Angeles: Roxbury.

7. Make your references easy to find
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one
this
It’s

8. About QUT Harvard
• Based on the referencing guidelines
in The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th
edition (808.027 2 /16 ).
• A new edition, recently updated
• Designed so that readers:
– can identify the source of
quotations, paraphrases as well as
ideas and facts, which are not
common knowledge
Available online at: – locate these resources, which are
http://www.library.qut.edu.au/find/databases/fullrecord.jsp?id=5585
recorded in your reference list.

9. Reference List – QUT Harvard Style
So that readers can identify or locate your sources, all QUT
Harvard references should include four key elements.
WH WHEN WHA
WHERE
O T
Who is responsible When was the What is the work Where can you
for creating the work created? called? find the work?
work? •Year •Title •Where it was
•Author(s) •In press •Journal Title published
•Organisations •Year, month •Book & Chapter •Journal volume,
•Directors date (if Title issues, and pages
•Artists continually •Website Title •Where it is
updated) archived online

10. Books – QUT Harvard Style
The answers to these four interrogatives, vary on the type of reference.
WH Flannery, Tim.
O
WHE
2005.
N
The weather makers:
WHA
T The history and future
impact of climate
change
WHER Melbourne: The Text
E
Publishing Company.
Book entry in the library catalogue. Where else could you find
a book’s publication details?

11. When you finalise your reference list, use the examples on Cite|Write to
format the reference list. For example:
Author
Year. Title of the book in italics
Surname, full first name.
Flannery, Tim. 2005. The weather makers: The
history and future impact of climate change.
Melbourne: The Text Publishing Company.
Place of Publication:
Publisher.
Look under ‘books’ in Cite|Write for examples of e-books, chapters
in edited books, editions other than the first, theses & more

12. Websites
WH World Health
O
Organization.
WHE
2009.
N
Influenza-like illness in the
WHA
T United States and Mexico.
WHER http://www.who.int/csr/
E
don/2009_04_24/en/ind
ex.html

13. In Cite|Write, you can find examples of how to format different
reference types.
Title of the webpage
(Website are considered an
informal document, so the
Author title is not italicised).
Year.
Organisation name.
orld Health Organization. 2009. “Influenza-like
illness in the United States and Mexico.” Accessed
May 5, 2009.
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_04_24en
Access date.
URL (As information on the
/index.h tml web can change daily.)

14. Journal Articles– QUT Harvard
Style
Let’s try providing the details for a journal article accessed online:
Chandler,
WH
Richard, Jonathan
O
Rougier and Mat
Collins,
WHE
N 2010.
Climate Change: Making
WHA
T certain what the
uncertainties are.
Significance
WHER
E 7(1), 9-12
doi: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.
Article entry on a database. Most publishers will also present this information
2010.00403.x
on the PDF of an article.

15. When you finalise your reference list, use the examples on Cite|Write to
format the reference list. For example:
Author :
Surname, First Name. (Year).
& First Name Surname
Chandler, Richard, Jonathan Rougier & Mat Collins. 2010. “Climate change:
Making certain what the uncertainties are.” Significance, 7(1): 9-12.
Accessed April 4, 2011. doi: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2010.00403.x
Everything you would need to find
Title of the article, in double this article:
quotation marks, followed by the •Volume Number
title of the journal in italics. •(Issue number)
•Page numbers
•Permanent, unique Digital Object
Identifier -- if accessed online
More examples available online www.citewrite.qut.edu.au

16. Top tips for formatting QUT Harvard
Punctuation Matters
Closely follow the Cite|Write examples on when to italicise,
place full stops, and brackets.
Over excited?
To cite an idea from more than one source; use a semi-
colon to separate: (Syme 2002; Scullard 2010).
Neat Reference List!
Single line spacing with a hanging indent is preferred. Lists
should be organised alphabetically by author. If you have
two resources by the same author, list them
chronologically.
Questions?

17. QUT Cite online tool
• To check how exactly how to cite a wide variety
of sources go to
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18. Need to keep track
of all these
publication details
for your reference
types?

19. Notetaking templates keep your notes and the publication details of
your books organised. Available from the Cite|Write website &
booklet.

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