This document compares the Harvard and Chicago referencing styles. It provides examples of how to reference different source types such as journal articles, books, websites, and more using both the Harvard and Chicago styles. The Harvard style lists author name(s) and date while the Chicago style lists author name(s), title, and other publication details in footnote or bibliography format.

2. Referencing Styles
Harvard Referencing Style
Chicago Referencing Style
APA Referencing Style

3. Chicago versus Harvard Referencing Style
Source Harvard System Chicago Referencing
Journal
Article
Shaw, P. (2005): “Estimating
local extinction rates over
successive time-frames”,
Biological Conservation, 121
(2), 281-7.
Weinstein, Joshua I. 2009. “The
Market in
Plato’s Republic.” Classical
Philology 104:439–58.
Conference
paper
Abbott, K. & Seymour, J.
(1997):‘Trapping the papaya
fruit fly in North Queensland’,
paper presented at the Australian
Entomological Society
conference, Melbourne, 28-30
September.
Adelman, Rachel. 2009. ‘Such
Stuff
as Dreams Are Made On: God’s
Footstool in the Aramaic
Targumim
and Midrashic Tradition.” Paper
presented at the annual meeting for
the Society of Biblical Literature,
New Orleans, Louisiana,
November
21–24.

4. Chicago versus Harvard Referencing Style
Source Harvard System Chicago Referencing
Book
one author
Reynolds, H. (2000): Black
pioneers, Penguin, Ringwood,
Vic.
Pollan, Michael. 2006. The
Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural
History of Four Meals. New York:
Penguin.
Book
two authors
Bull, J. and Gate, M. (1989):
Breeding dairy cows. London,
United Farming Press.
Ward, Geoffrey C., and Ken Burns.
2007. The War: An Intimate
History, 1941–1945. New York:
Knopf.
Book
Three
authors
Builder, Bob, et al (1993):
Construction practice. London,
Town House Publications.
For four or more authors, list all of
the authors in the reference list; in
the text, list only the first author,
followed by et al. (“and others”):

5. Chicago versus Harvard Referencing Style
Source Harvard System Chicago Referencing
Book chapter Ewbank, R. (1999): “Animal
welfare”, in Management and
welfare of farm animals. 4th
edn., Wheathampstead,
Universities Federation for
Animal Welfare, p.1-15.
Kelly, John D. 2010. “Seeing Red:
Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana,
and the Moral Economy of War.” In
Anthropology and Global
Counterinsurgency, edited by John
D. Kelly, Beatrice Jauregui, Sean T.
Mitchell, and Jeremy Walton, 67–
83. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
Website National Library of Australia
(2010): National Library of
Australia, Canberra, viewed 30
March 2010,
<http://www.nla.gov.au>
Google. 2009. “Google Privacy
Policy.” Last modified March 11.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/priva
cypolicy.html.

6. Chicago versus Harvard Referencing Style
Source Harvard System Chicago Referencing
Thesis or
Dissertation
Ward, I. (1998): 'Sedimentary
history of the Pandora wreck and
surrounds', M.A. thesis, James
Cook University, Townsville.
Choi, Mihwa. 2008.
“Contesting Imaginaries in Death
Rituals during the Northern Song
Dynasty.” PhD diss., University of
Chicago.
Magazine,
Newspaper
Article
Simpson, L. (1997): ‘Tasmania’s
railway goes private’, Australian
Financial Review, 13 October, p.
10.
Mendelsohn, Daniel. 2010. “But
Enough about Me.” New Yorker,
January 25.
Stolberg, Sheryl Gay, and Robert
Pear. 2010. “Wary Centrists Posing
Challenge in Health Care
Vote.” New York Times, February
27. Accessed February 28, 2010.