Hi Robert,

 

Like Debbie, I use the ‘Cite them right’ version of Harvard to try to establish a consistent school style. It forms the basis of our in-house guide and, when students find variations online and become confused, I can point them to that standard document. However, the online resources/tool costs, so if students need a formatting tool then their departments have to stump up (or someone has to). I rely on copies of the book in the library to supplement our in-house guide.

 

One thing I like about ‘Cite them right’ is that it attempts to simply the style (and has done so since the 9th edition) to get rid of some of the excesses and redundancies that began turning up in Harvard when use of electronic sources became prevalent.

 

Best wishes,

 

Juliette Smeed

 

 

 

From: learning development in higher education network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ping-Nan Chang
Sent: 08 November 2017 10:26
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Subject: Re: Referencing Query

 

Hi, Kate,

 

My institute does not subscribe to RefWorks or other paid software. Therefore, I sometimes recommend Zotero to my students. I think students can be informed about some common reference management tools (charged or free) that they may apply to suit their preferences. From logistic points of view, I think that the training should however focus on the software subscribed by individual institution. In addition, when it comes to generating a list of references, Microsoft Word may do the trick (for a limited number of referencing styles though).

 

Actually, I am more concerned about what the so-called Harvard style is. Is there an official manual of it? Since my own postgraduate studies, I have been confused by the lack of consistency in examples and lack of details in instruction from the research handbook that I received from my university. I also observed the issues on style guideline websites by several British universities. To illustrate, despite its comprehensiveness, UCL IoE Writing Centre’s A-Z guide on Harvard include examples which are not consistent in many ways. For instance, what’s the rules about specifying the country of a publication in the ‘Harvard’ style? I have seen variations in IoE’s examples: no mention of the country, UK and England for something published in England. This issue seems trivial, but could still confuse students. It ended up that I could only advise my students to be consistent. Can anyone recommend a Harvard style guide which is comprehensive and strictly consistent? It seems that I have been opening up another topic for discussion.

 

Thanks a lot.

 

Robert

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From: learning development in higher education network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kate Coulson
Sent: 07 November 2017 14:19
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Subject: Referencing Query

 

Good Afternoon Fellow LD-ers!

 

Here at Northampton I am working with our Academic Librarian’s to simplify our approach to Harvard referencing and I need to pick your lovely brains…..

 

I have a question for you:

 

“Do you officially endorse or recommend (as an institution) referencing software such as RefWorks, Mendeley or the like? If so, which one?”

 

Thanks so much,

 

Kate

 

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