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UQ Harvard referencing style

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

Published conference paper

Elements of the citation

Author(s) of paper - family name and initials Year of publication, 'Title of paper - in single quotation marks', Title of published proceedings which may include place held and date(s) - italicised, Publisher, Place of publication, Page number(s).

In-text reference Bourassa (1999) emphasised …
Reference list Bourassa, S 1999, ‘Effects of child care on young children’, Proceedings of the third annual meeting of the International Society for Child Psychology, International Society for Child Psychology, Atlanta, Georgia, pp. 44-6.
EndNote reference type Book section

Unpublished conference paper

Elements of the citation

Author(s) of paper - family name and intials Year of publication, 'Title of paper - in single quotation marks',  paper presented to /abstract presented at - name of conference (italicise), Place conference held, date of conference - days and month written in full.

In-text reference … estimating partner change (Bowden & Fairley 1996)
Reference list

Bowden, FJ & Fairley, CK 1996, ‘Endemic STDs in the Northern Territory: estimations of effective rates of partner change’, paper presented to the scientific meeting of the Royal Australian College of Physicians, Darwin, 24-25 June.

N.B. Use this example for unpublished papers and abstracts presented at conferences, seminars and meetings.

EndNote reference type

Conference proceedings