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UQ Harvard referencing style

The Harvard style is a generic author-date style for citing and referencing information used.

What is an indirect citation or secondary source?

An indirect citation or secondary source is when the ideas of one author are published in another author’s text but you have not read or accessed the original author’s work.

  • Include both the original author and the author of the work where quote/idea was found in the in-text reference.
  • Add "cited in" before the author in the in-text reference. For example - (cited in Lewis 2019).
  • In the reference list, provide the details of the author of the work in which you found the quotation or idea.

Citing an indirect citation or secondary source

Elements of the reference Follow the format of the reference in which you found the indirect citation.
In-text reference

Miller (cited in Agrios 2005) found …

or

… it was found (Miller cited in Agrios 2005).
Reference list

Agrios GN, 2005, Plant pathology, 5th edn, Elsevier, Burlington, MA.

Provide the details of the author of the work you have read.
EndNote reference type

Use the relevant reference type for the item you are citing.

In Word:-

  • Select the EndNote tab
  • Click on the intext citation (it should go grey)
  • Click on "Edit & Manage Citation(s)"
  • In the Prefix box- type "cited in "   OR  "Author surname cited in "(add a space after "in")
  • Click on OK
  • Intext reference should look similar to - (cited in Agrios 2005) OR (Miller cited in Agrios 2005)