In-text Citation
In-text Citation (In-text Citation) is labelled as an in-text quotation or rewriting of another article.
After quoting or rewriting someone else’s article, an in-text citation is much shorter than a full reference. In-text citations are much shorter than full references.
In-text citation includes the author’s last name, year of publication, and page number.
Examples are as follows.
1. Citing 1 author.
Mitchell (2017, p. 189) states … OR (Mitchell, 2017, p. 189)
2, Citing 2-3 authors.
Mitchell, Smith and Thomson (2017, p. 189) states … OR (Mitchell, Coyne and Thomson, 2017, p. 189)
3. citing multiple authors.
Mitchell et al (2017, p. 189) states…
4、If there are no authors, use the name of the institution or article in italics.
(A guide to citation, 2017, pp. 189-201) pp. indicates multiple pages
5、Multiple works by the same author in the same year should be sorted with an additional letter after the date:: (Mitchell, 2017a, pp.189-201)
(Mitchell, 2017a, p.189) Mitchell (2017b, p.189)
6. for multiple citations at once, use a semicolon :.
(Mitchell, 2017, p.189; Andrews, 1989, pp.165-176)
7、Citations with no date need to state “no date.”
(Mitchell, no date, p.189)
8. For secondary citations, the original article must be cited.
Smith 2000 (cited in Mitchell, 2017, p. 189) or (Smith, 2000, cited in Mitchell, 2017, p. 189).
Reference List
The Reference List at the end of the paper is a complete presentation of all the citations within the paper. At the end of the essay, it should list information that includes information about the author, date of publication, title, and other indications of the source. A Harvard-formatted reference list should include.
1, at the end of the document in addition to a separate page, listing citations within the text should not be omitted.
2, each line of text between a full line of space (or double-spaced).
3, according to the author’s name in alphabetical order; if there is no author, according to the title of the first alphabetical order; according to the date of sorting, for example.
(1). If there is more than one work by the same author, these works are sorted by date.
(2). If the works are in the same year, they are sorted alphabetically by title and assigned a letter (a, b, c, etc.) after the date.
There are many types of literature,which need to be organised in the literature list according to their respective requirements. Specific examples of each literature type are as follows.
1, book citations.
(1). Capitalise the first letter of the title of the book and italicise the title.
Mitchell, J.A, and Thomson, M. (2017) A guide to citation. 3rd edn. London: London Publishings.
2. book article citation.
(2). Article titles are not italicised, note the single inverted commas.
Troy B.N. (2015) ‘Citation rules’ in Williams, S.T. (ed.) A guide to citation rules. new York: NY Publishers, p.34.
3. eBook citation
(1). Italics followed by [online] :Date of access in parentheses at the end with Accessed.
Mitchell, J.A., Thomson, M. and Coyne, R.P. (2017) A guide to citation. e-book library [online]. Available
at:URL (Accessed: 10 September 2021)
4. citation of journal articles.
(1). The name of the article in single inverted commas, the title of the journal in italics with large initials, and the issue number.
(2). Electronic journals are cited as above, but with [online] and Accessed.
Mitchell, J.A. ‘How citation changed the research world’, The Mendeley, 62(9), p70-81.
(3). Newspaper article citation.
Mitchell, J.A. (2017) ‘Changes to citation formats shake the research world’, The Mendeley Telegraph (Weekend edition), 6 July, pp.9-12.
