UQ Harvard referencing style

Author of book - family name, initials Year of publication, Title of book - italicised, Edition - edn, Publisher, Place of publication.

Note:  - There is no punctuation between the author initials and the year
           - Commas are used to separate the other citation elements and a full stop is
              placed at the end of the citation

or

Berkman (1994, p. 25) claimed that …

or

Berkman (1994, pp. 30-35) agrees that …

… from an engineering perspective (Cengel & Boles 1994)

or

Cengel and Boles (1994) found …

• Use an ampersand (&) if citing the authors' names within parentheses; use 'and' when the authors' names are incorporated within the text. 
• Cite the names in the order in which they appear on the title page. 

Cengel, YA & Boles, MA 1994, Thermodynamics: an engineering approach, 2nd edn, McGraw Hill, London.

• Use an ampersand in the reference list



… as previously demonstrated (Reid, Parsons & Green 1989).

or

Reid, Parsons and Green (1989), as previously mentioned, ...

• Use an ampersand (&) if citing the authors' names within parentheses; use 'and' when the authors' names are incorporated within the text. 
• Cite the names in the order in which they appear on the title page. 

Reid, DH, Parsons, MB & Green, CW 1989, Staff management in human services: behavioral research and application, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield.

• Use an ampersand in the reference list

… neck pain caused by whiplash (Jull et al. 2008).

or

Jull et al. (2008) have argued …

• Show only the first-listed author, followed by 'et al.'

Jull, G, Sterling, M, Fallah, D, Treleaven, J & O'Leary, S 2008, Whiplash headache and neck pain: research-based directions for physical therapies, Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh.

• List all of the authors' names in the reference list.

… already mentioned (Be, know, do: leadership the Army way 2004).

or

In Be, know, do: leadership the Army way (2004) there is an interesting example …

… geology of Queensland’s national parks (Willmott 2004, 2006).

... geology of Queensland's national parks (Willmott 2004, p. 34; 2006, p.57)

• Separate the years with a comma. When including page references, use a semi-colon, as in the second example.

Willmott, WF 2004, Rocks and landscapes of the national parks of southern Queensland, Geological Society of Australia, Queensland Division, Brisbane.

Willmott, WF 2006, Rocks and landscapes of the national parks of central Queensland, Geological Society of Australia, Queensland Division, Brisbane.

• Order chronologically by year in the reference list.

Dawkins, R 1996a, Climbing Mount Improbable, Viking, London.

Dawkins, R 1996b, River out of Eden, Phoenix, London.

• Order alphabetically by title in the reference list and distinguish each reference with a lower-case letter (a, b, c, ... etc) after the year

… in the case of an institution (Australian Government Publishing Service 1987).

• Where the name of the authoring body is long and is used frequently throughout the document, an abbreviation may be used, but it should then be used for all subsequent citations of that authoring body and a cross reference should be included in the reference list (see below)

Australian Government Publishing Service 1987, Commonwealth printing and publishing manual, 2nd edn, A.G.P.S., Canberra.

Example cross-reference:

AGPS - see Australian Government Publishing Service

• The bibliographic detail should be provided alongside the full name of the authoring body.

Book 

Add a comma after each corporate author (eg. Queensland Health,) in the Author field

Pring, R 2004, Philosophy of educational research, 2nd edn, Continuum, London.

The edition statement is placed after the title of the work. This is not necessary for a first edition.

Pike and Sarkar (1986) show that...

… optics defined (Pike & Sarkar 1986)

… some findings (Sjostrand 1993)

Pike, ER & Sarkar, S (eds) 1986, Frontiers in quantum optics, Adam Hilger, Bristol.

Sjostrand, S (ed.) 1993, Institutional change: theory and empirical findings, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, N.Y.

• Use the abbreviations ed. (for a single editor) or eds (for multiple editors)

Kamal, AA 2010, 1000 solved problems in modern physics, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, viewed 3 April 2014, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-04333-8, (SpringerLink).

• Include the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) if available
• Include the URL if accessed via a free website
• Add the name of the provider of the electronic version in parentheses at the end.

Electronic Book

Enter the Digital Object Identifier (if available) in the DOI field.

If the book was accessed via a free website, put the URL in the URL field