Referenicing website articles (harvard)

DeadMoney

Hi, just wondering how exactly you are supposed to reference articles from a website again according to the Harvard guide? I know the format for the bibliography but for the body text of the essay, do you put the reference after each cited sentence and idea that has come from a particular article also, or is it just Author/Year in the body and then the full reference in the bibliography?
Sorry hope this makes sense.
Thanks

SIMPLYTHE

can't remember how to do that, but I do remember that there is an excellent guide available cheaply in the Library that explains all there is to know about referencing very clearly.... it's only abotu 3/5 euro, so really good value considering the great use it is...

best of luck!

DeadMoney

DeadMoney wrote: »

Hi, just wondering how exactly you are supposed to reference articles from a website again according to the Harvard guide? I know the format for the bibliography but for the body text of the essay, do you put the reference after each cited sentence and idea that has come from a particular article also, or is it just Author/Year in the body and then the full reference in the bibliography?
Sorry hope this makes sense.
Thanks

http://www.ehow.com/how_4424058_cite-website-using-harvard-style.html

I always find it very important to also put Last accessed: <date> under the URL as web pages are edited constantly and tend to disappear. archive.org can be useful if you have a 'last accessed' date.

As for citing in the text, you can cite in two different ways as far as I know:
(Author, Year)
or
[reference number]

I prefer the latter but it might not conform to Harvard guidelines; I don't know. Computing lecturers might have been more lax about this kind of thing.

DeadMoney

Deleted User wrote: »

http://www.ehow.com/how_4424058_cite-website-using-harvard-style.html

I always find it very important to also put Last accessed: <date> under the URL as web pages are edited constantly and tend to disappear. archive.org can be useful if you have a 'last accessed' date.

As for citing in the text, you can cite in two different ways as far as I know:
(Author, Year)
or
[reference number]

I prefer the latter but it might not conform to Harvard guidelines; I don't know. Computing lecturers might have been more lax about this kind of thing.

Yeah I think you're right. If I remember correctly its Author/Year in text and then full reference including 'last accessed' date.

Cheers both of you!

SIMPLYTHE

hey, just googled it there (always a lover of the short and easy way to an answer) and the UCD website says:
"To cite a website in your text, cite by author if this is possible. If no author is available cite by Title, if there is no title cite the URL, e.g.

The world wide Global Warming survey (www.globalwarmingsurvey.org, 2010) showed that…"

Hope all's sorted now. best of luck.

niamh90

DCU library guide to Harvard referencing is available for free here:

http://www.library.dcu.ie/LibraryGuides/citing&refGuide10.pdf

It has been updated to include a good section on citing websites, blogs etc.

H2G2

Just don't cite Wikipedia... most supervisors/examiners will consider it unreliable, subject to temporal /change issues, etc.

If you find useful information on Wikipedia, cite whatever source the article cites (when you determine it to be reliable) instead of Wikipedia itself.