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How to reference a journal article in Harvard

Paste the DOI and the generator gets all the details. Below: the Harvard format for journal articles.

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Format

Author, A. and Author, B. (Year) ‘Title of the article’, Journal Name, Volume(Issue), pp. xx–xx. Available at: https://doi.org/xxxx.

  • •The article title is in single quotation marks, the journal name in italics.
  • •Volume, issue in parentheses and the pages with pp.: 331(6018), pp. 772–775.
  • •Two authors are joined with “and”, not with an ampersand.
  • •If there is a DOI, add it at the end.

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How do I cite three or more authors in the text?

Name the first author and add et al.: (Smith et al., 2020). In the reference list many universities want all authors; check your module handbook before shortening a long list with et al.

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Formatting by citeproc-js (CPAL-1.0, Frank Bennett) · Citation styles from the Citation Style Language project (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Data: Crossref, Open Library · Licences