Harvard Referencing Guide

• When citing a document hosted on a webpage, but not the webpage itself, don’t include the word website in the citation.
• Hyperlink and italicise the document title.

Elements of the reference

Author A (Year) Title of document, Organisation Name or Name of Website, accessed Day Month Year.

Reference list

Western Australian Government (n.d.) Island guide, Rottnest Island, accessed 31 December 2019.

• If you’re citing a PDF, avoid linking directly to the PDF. Instead link to the landing page where the PDF is hosted.
• Landing pages tend to be a more stable place to link to. PDFs are often renamed or moved around a site. Linking to a PDF also requires the user to download content.

Elements of the reference

Author A or Organisational author (Year) 'Title of PDF: subtitle' Name of Landing page, Website name, accessed Day Month Year.

In-text citation

Thomson Reuters Australia (2017) OR (Thomson Reuters Australia 2017)

Reference list

• The link targets a landing page, not a PDF.

Thomson Reuters Australia (2017) ‘Legislation and commentary table of abbreviations’ Westlaw AU Guides, Thomson Reuters Australia, accessed 6 April 2020.

Elements of the reference

• If the PDF doesn’t have a landing page, link to the PDF and include ‘PDF’ in square brackets after the title, followed with the file size in kilobytes (KB) or megabytes (MB). Include both of these additional details in the linked text.
• Cite the PDF with the details you can find in the document. Sometimes details like publication dates will be missing.

Author A or Organisational author (Year) Title: subtitle [PDF XKB], Website name, accessed Day Month Year.

Reference list

Thomson Reuters Australia (n.d.) Table of abbreviations [PDF 94.35KB], Thomson Reuters Australia, accessed 20 January 2020.

• For reports published online, hyperlink the title of the report and include an accessed date. If you’re citing a PDF, avoid linking directly to the PDF. Instead link to the page that hosts the PDF.
• Sources with title pages will detail the author and publisher. Follow the authoring details on the title page of the document.

Elements of the reference

Print

Author A (Year) Title: subtitle, Publisher, Place of Publication

Online

Author A (Year) Title: subtitle, accessed Day Month Year.

In-text citation

(Tabcorp 2012:45-46) OR Tabcorp (2012)

Reference list

Print

Tabcorp (2012) Annual report 2012, Tabcorp Holdings Limited, Melbourne.

Online

Woolworths Group (2021) Annual report 2021, accessed 10 January 2022.

• Use this format to cite a company report, a company profile or an industry report from databases such as DataAnalysis, Factiva, Business Source Complete, etc.

Elements of the reference

Author A (Year) Title: subtitle, accessed Day Month Year, Database name.

In-text reference

Datamonitor (2012)

(Stephen 2012)

Reference list

Datamonitor (2010) Rio Tinto SWOT analysis, Business Source Complete, EBSCOhost, accessed 20 January 2012.