Good Essay Writing: A Social Sciences Guide
Jumbled References
To provide some practice in getting referencing right, here are some references that need to be properly formatted and put in the right order. Click on the reference to reveal it in its correct format. When you have had a go, download our version below, set out in a modified Harvard style.
And, yes, these are all genuine titles.
Reference list – download for the full list of references.
Note that the order of references is different in the download, as we have formatted and organized them as we should – alphabetically by the author’s name.
Perhaps the most difficult thing in the Harvard system is working out which bits should be italicized and which in quoatation marks. For books, the titles are italicized (or underlined); for journals, both printed and online, the title of the journal is italicized. Quotation marks go around chapters in books and titles of journal articles.