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Referencing Journal Articles

Take care when citing that you indicate which is the title of the article and which is the title of the journal.
If the Journal is an online journal then the Harvard references must include the access date and accession details

Template for Harvard reference of an Article

Journal Article

(Author, Date)

Author (Surname, Initial.)
Year of publication (in round brackets)
Title of article (in single quotation marks)
Title of Journal (in Italics and capitalise first letter of every word except linking words such as; and, as, of, a, the, for)
Journal Volume
Journal volume(Issue, part, month or season),
Page range pp. 6 – 56.
doi (if available)

Citing Journal Articles: Examples

Example: Journal Article: online	In-text citation According to Berger and Boritz (20140	Reference list Berger, L and Boritz, J.E. (2012) 'Accounting students' sensitivity to attributes of information integrity. Issues in Accounting Education, 27(4), pp. 867-893. Available at: doi: 10.2308/iace-50252
Prepublication article in repository	As stated by Nayak and Waterson (2016)	Nayak, R. and Waterson, P. (2016) 'The assessment of food safety culture: an investigation of current challenges, barriers and future opportunities within the food industry'. To be published in Food Control [Preprint] . Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2016.10.061
Example: electronic article with URL (no DOI)	An example cited by Dutta and Marjit (2016, pp. 120–121) …	Dutta, M. and Marjit, S. (2016) ‘Intra-country technology transfer’, Indian Economic Review, 51(1/2), new series, pp. 117–127. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/44376239 (Accessed: 27 May 2024).
Example: electronic article with article number instead of page numbers	Erbil (2020, p. 2) stated …	Erbil, D.G. (2020) ‘A review of flipped classroom and cooperative learning method within the context of Vygotsky theory’, Frontiers in Psychology, 11, article 1157. Available at: https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01157 (Accessed: 6 May 2024). NB: The page reference is to p. 2 of the downloaded PDF of the article.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

What is a Digital Object Identifier (DOI)?

A digital object identifier (DOI) is a character string (a "digital identifier") used for identifying content objects in the digital environment, such as an electronic document.

DOI names are used to provide current information, including where they (or information about them) can be found on the Internet. Information about a digital object may change over time, including where to find it, but its DOI name will not change.

To find a document using a DOI

Copy the DOI of the document you want to open and paste into search box at http://dx.doi.org

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