Harvard Referencing & In-text Citation Structure

When is an in-text citation is used?

• When you want to quote someone else's work (written/verbal/visual) or you use their ideas, information or intellectual property.

• You feel that the words, ideas or concepts you are creating don't sound like your own, even though they are.

• You use a quote with quotation marks.

To reference a web page article that does not have an author, what can you use in the place of a surname?

• The heading found on the article

• The name of the organization or institution that owns the web page

• The website's URL

Where would one indicate the date when using a direct quote?

• at the beginning of the sentence.

• directly after the surname of the author, in brackets.

• directly after the surname of the author, not in brackets.

When would you not need to use an in text citation?

• When you are quoting someone

• When you are rewriting someone else's words into your own words

• When you are writing about your own opinion or prior knowledge

When submitting a hand-written piece, the title of a book can be identified by...

• placing it in apostrophes

• underlining it

• writing it in italics

A reference list must be in the following order:

• Alphabetically

• Numerically

• The order in which you referred to each source in your essay/task.

Every work that you cite must appear in your bibliography.

• True

• False

Which is the correct, Harvard-style citation for Dark Emu?

The book is written by a man named Bruce Pascoe and is titled Dark Emu. The book was published in Broome, Western Australia in 2014 by Magabala Books.

• Bruce Pascoe, (2014) Dark Emu, Broome: Magabala Books

• Dark Emu, (2014) Pascoe, B. Magabala Books

• Pascoe, B (2014) Dark Emu. Magabala Books: Broome

• Pascoe, B (2014) Dark Emu. Broome: Magabala Books

What citation elements do you include in your essay text?

• author's last name

• author's full name

• author's last name and the page number

• page number

Where do you place the in text citation in your sentence? 

• wherever you want 
• at the end of your sentence
• in the middle of the sentence
• right next to the info you cited in the sentence