How to Write a Harvard Style Bibliography for Internet Books

Harvard style, also known as “author-date,” is the system commonly used in science and social science papers. With the increased prevalence of Internet resources, different authorities have different opinions about how these sources should be attributed. Although the approaches can be very different, two principles seem to be consistent: Provide sufficient information for authorship and accessibility; and when in doubt, analogize to a print source standard.

Instructions

    • 1

      Review your source and determine if you intend to cite the entire book, or merely a section of the book.

    • 2

      Draft the bibliography entry to match the following example if you need to cite the entire work.

      Format:
      Author (last, first) Year, editor(s) (ed.), Title (italics), edition/version, name and location of the source (publisher, place), viewed Day Month Year,<URL may include direct link or link to main site>.

      Example:
      Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1850, The Scarlet Letter (italics), Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Boston, viewed 1 December 2009, <http://www.bartleby.com/83/>.

    • 3

      Draft the bibliography entry to match the following example if you need to cite only a portion of the book, such as a single chapter.

      Format:
      Author (last, first) Year, ‘Chapter Title,’ in editor(s) (ed.), Book Title (title in italics), edition/version, name and location of the source (publisher, place), viewed Day Month Year,<URL may include direct link or link to main site>.

      Example:
      Christie, Agatha 1920, ‘Poirot Investigate,’ in The Mysterious Affair at Styles: A Detective Story (italics), Bodley Head, London, viewed 1 December 2009, <http://www.bartleby.com/112/>.

    • 4

      Analogize your source to an APA print source if your resource does not fit in either of the above examples.

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