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How to Cite a Periodical Using Harvard Style

Harvard style is the most commonly used academic citation method throughout the world. References and citations are methods of giving credit for concepts and ideas that you use in a piece of research to draw your own conclusions in your research process. Harvard style citations use a small note within the text of the paper to direct a reader to more extended set of details at the end of the text. These citations are very important because they allow you to credit other researchers' work and avoid plagiarism, which is the process of directly or indirectly taking credit for work that you did not do. Plagiarism generally results in expulsion from your academic program and total loss of professional credibility, so it is vitally important that you carefully cite all research that went into the formulation of your own research. If you cite a periodical instead of the individual articles within that periodical, you will still need to make the separate authors clear in your text.

Name of the periodical
Publisher of the periodical
Year the periodical was published
Volume number
Issue number
Editor of the periodical

Instructions

How to Cite a Periodical Using Harvard Style
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  List the editor's name--last name first--followed by "(ed)".If the editor's name is Leila Webberstone, then you reference so far will look like this:Webberstone, Leila (ed)
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  Follow the editor's name with the year the periodical was published and a comma. For example, if the article was published in 2008, then your reference should appear like this:Webberstone, Leila (ed) 2008,
- 3
  Add the title of the periodical, followed by another comma. If possible, italicize the title. If your word processor will not perform this type of formatting, then use an underscore sign to indicate that the title should be underlined. For example, if the title of the periodical is "Dolphin World," then your reference should now look like this:Webberstone, Leila (ed) 2008, _Dolphin World_,
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  Follow the title of the periodical with the volume number and a comma.You can abbreviate volume by writing "vol." If the issue is volume 16, then your reference should look like this:Webberstone, Leila (ed) 2008, _Dolphin World_, vol. 16,
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  Finish with the issue number and a period. You can abbreviate this by writing "no." If the number is 3, your reference should look like this:Webberstone, Leila (ed) 2008, _Dolphin World_, vol. 16, no. 3.

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