Harvard Referencing Guide

• This format is for citing lecture notes and other course materials (e.g. PowerPoint Slides). If you cite something from a lecture that was not included in a set of lecture notes, or from your own notes, treat it like personal communication.

Elements of the reference

Author A (Day Month Year) Title or your own descriptive title of class/topic [type of medium], Full name and code of unit, Southern Cross University.

In-text citation

(Nelson 2015) OR (Nelson 2015, slide 2)

Reference list

Nelson S (20 April 2015) Human resource management: topic 2 [PowerPoint slides], Human Resource Management MNG00724, Southern Cross University.

Faculty of Business, Law and Arts (2022) Module 1: what is history? [Module content], Making History HIST1001, Southern Cross University.

• A URL is not required as these cannot be accessed without an SCU login and may not to be available once that teaching session is finished.

Elements of the reference

Author A (Day Month Year) Unit code Title of the unit: unit content section title, Southern Cross University.

In-text Citation

(ACC91210 Finance for managers: risk and return 2020)

Reference list

ACC91210 Finance for managers: risk and return (10 January 2020) Southern Cross University.

• The title of your assignment is not italicised. That means a reader of your reference list understands the assignment is unpublished. 

In-text citation

(Jackson 2016) OR (Jackson 2016:2)

Reference list

Jackson H (2016) 'Sweet fruit' [unpublished creative writing assignment], Southern Cross University.