From September 2013 a new edition of the Write and Cite guide will be available. The version of Harvard in the new guide will be British Standard Harvard 2010 (BS Harvard 2010). This presentation highlights some of the main changes you can expect with BS Harvard 2010 compared with the previous referencing style used at QMU.

1. British Standard Harvard 2010

2. Comparison of QMU Harvard style and British Standard (BS)
Harvard 2010
Main changes to note with BS Harvard 2010:
• Authors surname in capitals
• Use ANON. for works with no author apart from: films, videos
and broadcasts which are the co-operative output of many
individuals, no one of whom has a dominant role as
creator…title should be first element for these.
• Last author listed initial is followed by a comma.
• In journal references abbreviations are included for volume
and issue number

3. Comparison of QMU Harvard style and British Standard (BS)
Harvard 2010
• In online references a full stop follows the format identifying
phrase. [online].
• In online resources the phrase “Available from:” rather than
“Available at:” precedes the URL/address of the resource.
• In online resources the term “viewed” rather than “accessed”
is used for the date the resource was consulted/used, the
whole phrase e.g. [viewed 8 August 2013] precedes the URL.
• Dates are displayed - day month year e.g. 8 August 2013
• http://www.qmu.ac.uk/lb/IFS_Harvard.htm

4. Book Reference
• Surnames now in CAPS
• Comma before date
• If there is a series it is now before the place of
publication it used to be after.
WILLIAMS, R., 2003. Television: technology and
cultural form. London: Routledge.

5. Chapter in a book of collected writings
• Surnames in CAPS
• Comma before date
• Author/editor of collected work now appears
as S. Segal-Horn not Segal-Horn, S.
PORTER, M., 1998. What is strategy? In: S. SEGAL-HORN, ed. The
strategy reader. Oxford: Blackwell in association with the Open
University, pp. 73-99.

6. E-book (online book)
• Surnames now in CAPS
• Comma before date
• Online instead of online book [full stop after square bracket].
• Online now comes before edition statement
• Viewed instead of accessed
• Day month year instead of month day year
• Available from instead of available at
• Viewed comes before URL instead of after
MANDELSTAM, M., 2009. Community care practice and the law
[online]. 4th ed. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers [viewed 26 June
2013]. Available from:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/qmuc/Doc?id=10264096

7. Journal article
• Surnames now in CAPS
• Comma before date
• Use month/season then vol. & no. No brackets
are required
BONEN, A. and SHAW, S.M., 1996. Recreational exercise
participation and aerobic fitness in men and women: analysis of
data from a national survey. Journal of Sports Science.
August, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 297-303.

8. Ejournal (online journal)
• Surnames now in CAPS
• Comma before date
• Use month/season then vol. & no. No brackets are required
• Full stop after [online].
• Viewed instead of accessed, day month year instead of month
day year
• Available from instead of available at
• Viewed comes before URL instead of after
COTTER, D., MANNING, R.J., BLOW, K.J., ELLIS, A.D., KELLY, A.E. and
NESSET, D., 1999. Non-linear optics for high-speed digital information
processing. Science [online]. November, vol. 286, no. 5444, pp. 1523-
1528 [viewed 19 October 2001]. Available from:
http://www.sciencemag.org

9. Website
• Surnames/organisation names now in CAPS
• Comma before date
• Full stop after [online].
• Viewed instead of accessed, day month year instead of month
day year
• Available from instead of available at
• Viewed comes before URL instead of after
BBC., 2009. BBC News [online]. [viewed 12 June 2009]. Available
from: http://www.bbc.news.co.uk

10. Contribution to a newspaper
• Surnames now in CAPS
• Comma after author initial
• Date is day month not month day.
RODNEY, Z., 2005. Edinburgh leads the way in
festival management. The Guardian. 19
November, p. 5.

11. Online newspaper
• Surnames now in CAPS
• Comma before date
• Full stop after [online].
• Place of publication only, London not London ed.
• Day/Month not month /day
• Viewed instead of accessed, day month year instead of month
day year
• Available from instead of available at
• Viewed comes before URL instead of after
HAWKES, N., 2008. NHS ‘abandons’ many dementia patients and
their families. The Times [online]. London, 24 January, p.22 [viewed
20 June 2008]. Available from: http://www.newsuk.co.uk

12. Conference proceedings
• Surnames now in CAPS, if editor use ed. after
initial, no brackets round ed.
• Comma after author/editor initial
• SHAKYA, G., ed. 2005. JISC Conference on
Learning Online. Liverpool University, 6-9
August 2004. London: Open University.

13. Published conference papers
• Surname of paper author now in CAPS, if editor write ed. after
initial, no brackets round ed.
• Comma after author/editor initial
• Author/editor of Proceedings is NOT inverted
• Do not enter location or date of conference.
HUXHAM, M., 2005. Learning in lectures: do ‘interactive
windows’ help? In: G. SHAKYA, ed. JISC Conference on Learning
Online. London: Open University, pp.25-28.

14. Presentation/lecture
• Surnames now in CAPS
• Comma after author initial
• Full stop after type of presentation
• Date is day month not month day
• Location is followed by date, previously date was
followed by location.
ROLAND, J. and ROBSON, J., 2007. The lost art of
sensitive criticism [seminar]. Edinburgh: Queen
Margaret University, 1 April.

15. Online presentation/lecture
• Surnames now in CAPS
• Comma after author initial
• Full stop after type of presentation, which is now all included in
one set of square brackets.
• Viewed instead of accessed, day month year instead of month
day year
• Date of lecture is day month not month day
• Available from instead of available at. Viewed comes before URL
instead of after
ROLAND, J. and ROBSON, J., 2005. The Edinburgh Lectures. The
health and psyche of the Scottish nation [online lecture].
Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 21 January. [viewed 3
June 2005]. Available from: http://www.rse.org.uk/edlect/

16. Thesis/dissertations
• Other than those already noted the major
change is that the title of award is followed by
ed.
KELLY, T., 1981. The Irish-Catholic
immigrant, 1890-1930. PhD thesis ed. Harvard
University

17. Government reports and acts of
parliament
• No changes other than those already noted.

18. Images
• If no author/creator available use ANON.
• No changes other than those already noted.
ANON., 2007. Edinburgh Tenements 1895
[postcard]. Edinburgh: Heritage Images.

19. Physical objects
• Use At: instead of held at:
• No changes other than those already noted.
RODIN, A., 1887. Age of Bronze [bronze
sculpture]. At: Alte Nationalgalerie: Berlin.

20. Broadcasts
• Year of production comes after creator (was
previously after title.
• All other changes as previously noted.
BARENBOIM, D., 2006. Reith lectures: in the
beginning was sound. London: BBC Radio 4, 7
April – 5 May.

21. DVDs, videos films etc.
• Creator/director is listed first, name is inverted.
• Medium/format now comes after the title, full stop after
square brackets.
• All other changes as already noted.
KELLY, R., 2004. Donnie Darko [DVD]. New York: Pandora.
TRONICKE, E., 2009. Still face experiment [online video]. [viewed
4 March 2013]. Available from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apzXGEbZht0

22. Online communications
• Use In: to denote the discussion list
• Date day/month now after medium [online].
• All other changes as previously noted.
DAHAL, R. M., 2005. Assistive technology
conference - balancing the equation. In: Lis-link
[online]. 4 April [viewed 27 July 2005]. Available
from: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

23. Closed discussion lists
• As for online communication with addition of
Closed discussion list at the end of reference.
SMITH, R. M., 2005. Learning technology in
today’s world. In: WebCT Online discussion
[online]. 4 April [viewed 27 July 2006]. Available
from: http://learn.qmu.ac.uk. Closed discussion
list.

24. Blogposts
• [online]. comes before title of blog
• Day/month of blog post now comes after blog title.
• All other changes as previously noted.
STEVENS, J., 2007. Yahoo is winning in the portal
wars [online]. GUtechnologyblog. 21 June
[viewed 25 June 2007]. Available from:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology

25. Tweets
• This is a new element in write and cite
@speechwoman, 2013. [twitter post]. 13
January [viewed 18 February 2013]. Available
from:
https://twitter.com/speech_woman/status/2905
72373986516992

26. email
• No email address for sender of email
• Medium [email]. is now in square brackets after
email subject.
• Phrase – Message to: comes after medium [email].
• Day/month comes at the end of the reference.
• All other changes as previously noted.
CORMIE, V., 2005. Make poverty history [email].
Message to: Tony Blair (tony@gov.uk). 2 July.

27. In text citation
• This remains the same as before, please note
the authors surname does not need to be in
capitals in the in-text citation.
(Auer and Krupar 2005)
AUER, N.J. and KRUPAR, E.M., 2005.
Librarians grading: giving A's, B's, C's, D's, and
F's . Reference Librarian, vol. 43, 39-61, no. 89-
90, pp. 39-61.

28. Thank you!
If you have any queries, please contact
myself, your Liaison Librarian or the Effective
Learning Service.
http://www.qmu.ac.uk/lb/IFS_Harvard.htm
Sheila Williams
swilliams2@qmu.ac.uk