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文献格式哈佛体系
Referencing-TheHarvardSystem
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Introduction
Asastudent,itisimportantthatyouidentifyinyourassessmentwhenyouareusingthewordsorideasofanotherauthor.Themostacceptedwayofacknowledgingtheworkofanotherauthoristouseareferencingsystem.AttheDepartmentofLifelongLearningyouarerequiredtousetheHarvardreferencingsystem.
Thefollowingguidetellsyouwhyyouneedtouseareferencingsystem,showsyouhowtoinsertreferencesinthetextofyourassignments,andshowsyouhowtocompileareferencelist.Whiletherearemanyvariationsonthe‘Harvard’system,theonepresentedinthisguideisthemostsimple.Itdoesawaywithmostusagesof‘p’and‘pp’tosignifypagenumbersanditreplacessomeofthecommaswithcolons.Also,thisguideisbynomeansanexhaustivelistofallthereferencingconventionsthatyouwillrequireinyouracademiclife.
Whyyoushoulduseareferencingsystem
Asapartofanacademiccommunity,itisimportantthatyoushowthereaderwhereyouhaveusedsomeoneelse’sideasorwords.FailuretoproperlyreferenceusingtheHarvardsystemmaymakethereaderthinkthatyouarecheatingbyclaimingsomeoneelse’sworkasyourown.Intheacademicenvironment,wecallthisplagiarismanditisseenasaveryseriousoffence.Pleaserememberthatplagiarismisnotjustwhenyoudirectlycopywordsfromanotherstudent’sorexpert’swork.Plagiarismalsooccurswhenyoure-wordsomeoneelse’sideasinyourownworkandyoudonotgivecredittotheoriginalsource.
Plagiarismcanhavedisastrousconsequencesforstudents.Ifyouaresuspectedofplagiarismyoumayfindthatyourassignmentreceivesagradeofzero.Inextremeorrepeatedcases,youmayfindthatyourenrolmentattheuniversityisreviewed.Forfurtherinformation,pleaseconsultsection3ofthestudenthandbook.
Onamorepositivenote,referencingisimportantforreasonsotherthanavoidingplagiarism.Whenyoureferencecorrectlyyouaredemonstratingthatyouhavereadwidelyonatopic.Youarealsosupportingyourhypothesiswithcommentsfromexpertauthors.Thislendscredibilitytoyourownwork.Also,bycorrectlyreferencing,youallowthemarkerorreadertofollow-upyourreferencesandtocheckthevalidityofyourargumentsforthemselves.Thisisanimportantpartoftheacademicprocessasitleadstostudentaccountability.
Collectingallthedetails:
Accuratereferencing
Inordertohaveanaccuraterecordofwhatyouhaveresearchedandthereforeanaccuratereference,itisimportantthatyouwritedownthedetailsofyoursourcesasyoustudy.Whentakingnotes,useaseparatepageforeachnewbook,journalarticle,orelectronicsource.Atthetopofeachpage,clearlyrecordthefollowinginformationforfuturereference.
Forbooks,record:
∙Theauthor’soreditor’sname(ornames)
∙Theyearthebookwaspublished
∙Thetitleofthebook
∙Ifitisaneditionotherthanthefirst
∙Thecitythebookwaspublishedin
∙Thenameofthepublisher
Forjournalarticlesrecord:
∙Theauthor’snameornames
∙Theyearinwhichthejournalwaspublished
∙Thetitleofthearticle
∙Thetitleofthejournal
∙Thepagenumber/softhearticleinthejournal
∙Asmuchotherinformationasyoucanfindaboutthejournal,forexamplethevolumeandissuenumbers
Forelectronicresources,trytocollecttheinformationontheleftifitisavailable,butalsorecord:
∙Thedateyouaccessedthesource
∙Theelectronicaddressoremail
∙Thetypeofelectronicresource(email,discussionforum,WWWpage,etc)
Inadditiontothesedetails,whenyouaretakingnotes,ifyoucopydirectquotationsorifyouputtheauthor’sideasinyourownwords,writedownthepagenumbersyougottheinformationfrom.
Writingtheassessment:
WhatdoIneedtoreference?
Whenyouarewritingyourassessment,besuretotypeinreferenceinformationasyouaddintheideasofotherauthors.Thiswillsaveyoutimeandwillensurethatyoureferenceallsourcesproperly.Wheneveryouusesomeoneelse’sideasorwords,youmustputinareference.Theonlyexceptiontothisruleiswhentheinformationyouhavereadsomewhereiscommonknowledgeor‘publicdomain’information.Forexample,youwouldnotneedtoincludeareferenceifyoustatedinanassignmentthatShakespearewroteplaysandsonnetsinElizabethantimes.
Alwaysreference:
∙
Directquotations–thisiswhenyoucopyanotherauthor’smaterialword-for-word.Youshouldshowthereaderthatitisadirectquotebyplacingthematerialininvertedcommas.Traditionally,doubleinvertedcommashavebeenused(“)butitisnowacceptable,andpreferabletousesingleinvertedcommas(‘).Sometimesitisdifficulttoavoidthedirectquotationastheauthor’swordsmaypreciselydescribethepointyouaretryingtomake.However,dotrytoavoidtheoveruseofdirectquotations;trytoparaphrasetheauthor’sworkwherepossible.Pleasenotethatwhenyouusedirectquotations,youmustreproducetheauthor’swordsexactly,includingallspelling,capitalisation,punctuation,anderrors.Youmayshowthereaderthatyourecogniseanerrorandthatyouarecorrectlyquotingtheauthorbyplacingtheterm‘sic’inbracketsaftertheerror.
∙Paraphrasing–thisiswhenyoutakeanotherauthor’sideasandputthemintoyourownwords.Youarestillcopyingsomeoneelse’swork,soyoumustreferenceit.Youdonotneedtouseinvertedcommaswhenyouparaphrase,butyoumustclearlyshowthereadertheoriginalsourceofyourinformation.
Referencinginthetextofyourassessment
Thefollowingsectionshowsyouanumberofdifferentexampleswhenquotingandparaphrasinginthetextofyourassessment.Inallreferences,youwillneedtolisttheauthor/editorname/sandtheyearofpublication.Theyearofpublicationcanbefoundonthefirstcoupleofpagesofthebook,alongwiththeotherbibliographicinformation.Lookfortheauthor’sname,acopyrightsymbolandthenadate.Thiswillbethedateofpublication.Inmostreferencesyouwillalsoneedtolistthepagenumber/swhereyoufoundthespecificinformation.Theonlytypeofreferencewherethisisnotrequirediswhenyouparaphraseasummaryofanentirepieceofwork.Asahypotheticalexample,fictitiousauthorJohnPhillipsmighthavewrittenahistorybookin1999thatexaminesgenerationalchanges.Youmightsummariseandcorrectlyreferencetheentiregistofhisbookinthefollowingway.
Phillips(1999)suggeststhatgenerationalchangeisinevitableandcontinuous.
Inallothercircumstances,pleasefollowtheguidelinesbelowandbesuretoincludetheauthor,dateandpagenumber/s.Theformatsaresimilarforeachexamplesopleasenotetheuseofpunctuation,spacingandtheorderofinformation.
Directquotefromabookorjournalarticlewithoneauthor
Whenorganisingourtime,Adair(1988:
51)statesthat‘thecentrepiecewilltendtobegoalsandobjectives’.
OR
Whenorganisingourtime‘thecentrepiecewilltendtobegoalsandobjectives’(Adair,1988:
51).
Intheseexamples,‘Adair’istheauthor,‘1988’istheyearofpublicationand‘51’isthepagenumberwherethedirectquotecanbefound.
Directquotefromabookorjournalarticlewithtwoauthors
McCarthyandHatcher(1996:
69-70)insistthatwithpresentations‘structuremustbeclearandprecise’.
OR
Withpresentations,‘structuremustbeclearandprecise’(McCarthyandHatcher,1996:
69-70).
Intheseexamples,thequotewentovertwopagesthereforethepagenumberswererepresentedas69-70,ratherthanasasinglenumber.Alsonoticefromtheexamplessofar,thatwhenthequoteendsthesentence,thefullstopcomesaftertheinvertedcomma.
Directquotefromabookorjournalarticlewiththreeauthors
Fisher,UryandPatton(1991:
37)suggestthatwhenemotionalissuescloudnegotiation,‘somethoughtsarebestleftunsaid’.
OR
‘Somethoughtsarebestleftunsaid’whenemotionalissuescloudnegotiation(Fisher,UryandPatton,1991:
37).
IfhypotheticalauthorsMorris,Ling,Brown,Smith,andDiazwroteabookpublishedin2000,adirectquotewouldlooklikethis.Notethatinthenextexample,‘etal’means‘andothers’.
Directquotefromabookorjournalarticlewithmorethanthreeauthors
Morrisetal(2000:
47)statethat‘thedebateoftheseparticularissuesshouldbelefttorepresentativecommittees’.
Whenyouparaphrase,itwilllookmuchthesameasthedirectquotationexamples,butwithouttheinvertedcommas.Forexample,ifweparaphrasedanexamplefromtheMcCarthyandHatcherbook,itwouldlooklikethis.
Byimprovingyourpostureyoucanimprovehowyoucommunicatefeelingsofpowerandconfidence(McCarthyandHatcher,1996:
111).
Whenparaphrasing,usethesamereferencingstyleandconventionsasyouwouldfordirectquotes,butwiththematerialfromthesourceputintoyourownwords,andtheinvertedcommasomitted.Belowisanothercomparativeexampleofthedirectquoteversusparaphrasing.
Directquoteandparaphrasingfromasourcewitha‘corporate’orgovernmentauthor
TheDfEE(2001:
8)suggestthateachyear‘somehaveestimatedthecosttothecountryofpoorliteracyandnumeracyskillstobeashighas£10billion’.
OR-PARAPHRASE
TheeffectoflowlevelsofadultnumeracyandliteracyskillscouldbecostingBritainaround£10billioneachyear(DfEE,2001:
8).
Youmightalsoliketorearrangethequotesothatthereferencecomesattheend,asyouhavebeenshowninpreviousexamples.
Whenyouareresearching,youmaycomeacrossasituationwherethesameauthorhaswrittentwobooksinthesameyear.Todistinguishonetitlefromanotherinyourreferencing,placealower-casele