Just to kick us off I thought I would share this video on Harvard Referencing from the University of Derby. It's clearly explained, nicely presented and gives you the main things you need to know.
A key piece of information in Harvard Referencing is the author surname. In the in-text citation you give the author's surname and the year of publication and the list of references should be arranged alphabetically by author surname. It doesn't matter if the source is a book, a magazine, an academic journal article or a speech, it is the author surname that comes first.
The use of the author surname is the beauty of the Harvard Style over things like footnotes because it's not necessary to put anything else on the page (other than name and year) or to list references in the order that they appear in the work.
So next time you feel like you want to complain about having to do Harvard Referencing, remember you are using a simple and elegant system.
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