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Harvard Referencing Generator

Create Harvard references and in-text citations the way most UK universities expect.

  • Free
  • No sign-up
  • Nothing is sent or stored

Write people as “Last, First Middle”. Write organisations as their full name.

Harvard reference

Walker, M.P. and Stickgold, R. (2006) ‘Sleep, memory, and plasticity’, Annual Review of Psychology, 57, pp. 139–166. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.56.091103.070307.

In-text citation

(Walker and Stickgold, 2006)

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Check the result against your instructor’s or publisher’s guidance — titles keep the capitalisation you type, and some styles want sentence case.

The calculation happens instantly in your browser. The numbers you enter are not sent to our servers or saved.

How to use the Harvard Referencing Generator

  1. Choose the source type — book, journal article, web page, newspaper or chapter.
  2. Fill in the authors, title and publication details.
  3. Copy the reference (with italics) and the in-text citation, or add it to your reference list.

What does this tool do?

Harvard is an author-date family of styles rather than one standard; this generator follows Cite Them Right, the version most UK universities use. References give initials without spaces, the year in brackets, and “Available at:” with an access date for online sources.

In-text citations follow the Harvard pattern: (Author, Year, p. X), with “et al.” for four or more authors. Saved sources stay in your browser only; nothing is uploaded.

Why use it?

  • Books, articles, web pages, newspapers and chapters.
  • Copies with italics for Word and Google Docs.
  • Builds a full reference list across tools.

Example

Walker, M.P. and Stickgold, R. (2006) ‘Sleep, memory, and plasticity’, Annual Review of Psychology, 57, pp. 139–166.

Accuracy and limits

  • Always check against your instructor's or publisher's guidelines — local variations of each style are common, and titles keep the capitalisation you type.

Privacy

The calculation happens instantly in your browser. The numbers you enter are not sent to our servers or saved. There's no account to create and nothing to install.

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