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A-Z Harvard Solent Referencing examples

A-Z Harvard Solent Referencing examples

Unpublished Sources

Unpublished sources will often be produced internally by companies or organisations so they will often have a corporate author.

If your source has an individual (or more than one) person named as the author, use their name/s as the author entry.

 

In-text reference examples

…aims to provide a top-class university education for all those qualified and able to benefit (Southampton Solent University 2015).
 

Jones (2012) produced a document outlining the "excellent financial position" of the organisation.

 

Reference list format

AUTHOR, Year of publication. Title of document. Place of publication (if known): Publisher (if known) [viewed date if online]. Available from: URL (if known)  [unpublished]


Reference list examples

JONES, H., 2012.  A successful year [unpublished]
 

SOUTHAMPTON SOLENT UNIVERSITY, 2015. Building an excellent university 2015-2020.  Southampton: Southampton Solent University [viewed 29 July 2019]. Available from: http://portal.solent.ac.uk/documents/vco/southampton-solent-university-strategy-2015-2020.pdf?t=1541075154683  [unpublished]
 

SOUTHAMPTON SOLENT UNIVERSITY, 2015. Building an excellent university 2015-2020  [viewed 29 July 2019]. Available from: http://portal.solent.ac.uk/documents/vco/southampton-solent-university-strategy-2015-2020.pdf?t=1541075154683  [unpublished]
 

SOUTHAMPTON SOLENT UNIVERSITY, 2015. Building an excellent university 2015-2020  [unpublished]
 


Page numbers in your in-text references 

You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section. 

Include the details of both authors in the in-text citations and the full reference list.

Only the first author surname is reversed in the full reference list entry.

 

In-text reference examples

Vidic and Greene (2024) have referred to the concern... 

It is clear that there is a concern around the "extreme information overload" (Vidic and Greene 2024, p.35).

 

Reference list format

AUTHOR SURNAME, Initial. and Initial. AUTHOR SURNAME, Year of publication. Title of document. Place of publication (if known): Publisher (if known) [viewed date if online]. Available from: URL (if known)  [unpublished]

 

Reference list example

The format for adding two authors to a full reference is shown below.  
 

VIDIC, P. and L. GREENE, 2024. [Add full reference details for the source type after the author following the format above]

 


Page numbers in your in-text references 

You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section. 

 

Include the details of all three authors in both the in-text citations and the full reference list.

Only the first author surname is reversed in the full reference list entry.

 

In-text reference examples

Rosa, Harris and Weyers (2021) have referred to the concern... 

It is clear that there is a concern around the "extreme information overload" (Rosa, Harris and Weyers 2021)...

 

Reference list format

AUTHOR SURNAME, Initial., Initial. AUTHOR SURNAME and Initial. AUTHOR SURNAME, Year of publication. Title of document. Place of publication (if known): Publisher (if known) [viewed date if online]. Available from: URL (if known)  [unpublished]

 

Reference list example

The format for adding three authors to a full reference is shown below.  
 

ROSA, L., P. HARRIS and T. WEYERS, 2021. [Add full reference details for the source type after the author following the format above]

 


Page numbers in your in-text references 

You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section.

If your source has four or more authors, just include the first author in both the in-text citation and full reference list entry.  You will need to add et al. after the first author to indicate there were multiple additional authors.

 

In-text reference examples

Svoen et al. (2023) have referred to the concern... 

It is clear that there is a concern around the "extreme information overload" (Svoen et al. 2023)...

 

Reference list format

AUTHOR SURNAME, Initial. et al., Year of publication. Title of document. Place of publication (if known): Publisher (if known) [viewed date if online]. Available from: URL (if known)  [unpublished]

 

Reference list example

The format for adding four or more authors to a full reference is shown below.  

SVOEN, L. et al., 2023. [Add full reference details for the source type after the author following the format above]

 


Page numbers in your in-text references 

You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section.

A source may sometimes have a corporate author rather than an individual or several people named as author.

A corporate author is an organisation or company, for example, that created the information source.

Add a corporate author by including the full name both in your in-text citation and in your full reference list.

 

In-text reference example

…aims to provide a top-class university education for all those qualified and able to benefit (Southampton Solent University 2015).

 

Reference list format

CORPORATE AUTHOR, Year of publication. Title of document. Place of publication (if known): Publisher (if known) [viewed date if online]. Available from: URL (if known)  [unpublished]

 

Reference list example

The format for adding a corporate author to a full reference is shown below.  
 

SOUTHAMPTON SOLENT UNIVERSITY, 2015.  [Add full reference details for the source type after the author following the format above]

 


Page numbers in your in-text references 

You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section.