The Coventry University Guide to Referencing in Harvard Style: Home

The Coventry University Guide to Referencing in Harvard Style should only be used by returning students who started their course before September 2020. Most students at Coventry University now use the APA 7th edition style of referencing, with the exception of Law students, who use OSCOLA.

For more information about which style you should use, please see the Referencing Switch Guide.

These pages will help you to become familiar with the CU Guide to Referencing in Harvard Style. Make sure that you also understand how to use sources. We further strongly suggest you download the full text version of the Guide. If you still have queries, consult our FAQs and options for further support, or make an appointment with your Academic Liaison Librarian.

Overview of key elements:

• In-text citations
• List of References
• Relationship between elements

Techniques to integrate sources

• Quoting
• Paraphrasing
• Summarising
• Critiquing

How to reference secondary sources (sources within sources)