This guide tells you how to reference in the University of Bradford Harvard style. This is the complete guide

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Introduction: Why do I have to reference? What do and don't I have to reference?
- Basic points of the Harvard style.
- How to find the information to write a reference.

Citing within the text of written work

Specific questions about citation:

- - Including page numbers in citations
  - Citing sources with an unknown author or date?
  - Citing sources which are written by an organisation rather than a named person or people
  - Citing material that you created?
  - Citing more than one than one source by the same author(s) from the same year
  - Citing more than one source in the same sentence
  - Citing sources which you have not read

Referencing : general priciples

Referencing particular source types

Referencing books
Referencing journal articles (including electronic journal articles)
- Electronic journal articles
- Sections of journal articles
Referencing webpages and web documents
- Online data, databases and statistics
- Online video
- Podcasts or other online audio files
- AI-generated content
- Other electronic sources (Tweets / X; Blog posts; Wikis; Computer games; Mobile apps)
Referencing audio-visual sources
- Online video (including Youtube)
- Films
- Television programmes
- Radio
- Podcasts or other online audio files
Referencing Images
- - Online images
  - AI-generated images
Referencing Legal and official publications
- - Government and parliamentary publications
    - Documents produced by government departments
    - Hansard records
    - Parliamentary publications: Command Papers
  - Laws and other legal documents
    - Acts of Parliament (statutes)
    - Cases from Law Reports
    - Statutory instruments
Referencing other sources
- BNF (British National Formulary)
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
- Comics, books of cartoons, manga, graphic novels.
  - E-comics, webcomics and online cartoons.
- Conferences and conference proceedings
  - Full books of conference proceedings
- Historical works
  - Historical Sources with an author
  - Historical Sources with no author
- Lectures and personal communications
  - Lectures, presentations, study guides or handouts
  - Personal communications (conversations, emails, interviews, etc)
- Maps
  - Online maps
- Newspaper articles.
  - Online newspaper articles
- NICE guidelines
- Non-English and translated sources
  - Translated works
  - Works read in a language that is not English
- Patents
- Reports and organisational policies
- Sacred texts
- Standards
- Theses, dissertations or unpublished research
- Unpublished archive materials

Referencing material you have not read (secondary referencing)

The reference list or bibliography.

Referencing tools