The Harvard pattern
A Harvard reference starts with the author and the year in brackets, then the title in italics, then where it came from. Initials have no spaces between them, and the last two authors are joined with and: Levitt, S.D. and Dubner, S.J. (2005) Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything. New York: William Morrow. A book's place and publisher are joined by a colon, and an edition after the first is written as 3rd edn.
Web pages, videos and articles
Anything online ends with Available at: and its link, and a web page or video also gives the day you looked at it, from the Accessed box: World Health Organization (2023) Malaria. Available at: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria (Accessed: 14 October 2026). A journal article's title goes in single quotation marks and the journal in italics: Walker, M.P. and Stickgold, R. (2004) ‘Sleep-dependent learning and memory consolidation’, Neuron, 44(1), pp. 121–133. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2004.08.031. A page with no author is listed under its website's name, and one with no date says (no date).
Questions
Why does my university's Harvard look different?
Harvard is a family of author-date styles, not one rulebook, so universities differ in small ways: full stops after initials or not, Accessed or Viewed, the year in brackets or not. This page follows Cite Them Right, the guide most UK universities use. Where your module handbook shows a different pattern, follow the handbook and adjust the punctuation after pasting.
How do I cite it in the text?
Give the author and year in brackets, with a comma: (Levitt and Dubner, 2005), adding the page for a quotation: (Levitt and Dubner, 2005, p. 45). Three or more authors are shortened to the first and et al., as in (Smith et al., 2021).
Two works by the same author in one year?
Harvard tells them apart with a letter after the year, 2005a and 2005b, both in the reference list and in the text. This page does not add the letters, so type them in after pasting.