Harvard Referencing: Diverse Documents Demystified

Acts of Parliament

The required elements are:
Short title with Key words capitalized, which includes the year followed by the chapter number in brackets. Key words of titles are capitalized. Place of publication: Publisher.
Higher Education Act 2004. (c.8), London: HMSO.
For Acts prior to 1963, the regal year and parliamentary session are included:
Road Transport Lighting Act 1957. (5&6 Eliz. 2, c.51), London: HMSO.
It is good practice to keep in your files a copy of the front page of any website you use.

Statutory Instruments

The required elements for a reference are:
Short title with Key words capitalized. Year. the abbreviation 'SI' followed by the year of publication and the SI number. Place of publication: Publisher.
Public Offers of Securities Regulations 1995. SI 1995/1537, London: HMSO.

Command Papers and other official publications

The required elements for a reference are:
Authorship, which may be part of the title. Year. Title, in italics if a separate element, Command number as it is on the document, within brackets, Place of publication: Publisher.
Royal Commission on civil liability and compensation for personal injury, 1978. (Pearson Report) (Cmnd. 7054) London: HMSO.
Select Committee on nationalised industries (1978-9). Consumers and the nationalised industries: prelegislative hearings (HC 334 of 1978-9) London: HMSO.

Law report

Following normal legal practice the required elements for a reference are:
Name of the parties involved in the law case, Year of reporting (in square brackets, where there is no volume) number Law reporting series, Volume and number, Page reference if available.
R v White (John Henry) [2005] EWCA Crim 689, 2005 WL 104528.
Jones v Lipman [1962] 1 WLR 832.
Saidi v France (1994) 17 EHRR 251, p.245

Annual report

The required elements for a reference are:
Corporate author, Year*. Full title of annual report, Place of publication: Publisher.
Marks & Spencer, 2004. The way forward, annual report 2003-2004, London: Marks & Spencer.
For an e-version of an annual report the required elements for a reference are:
Author or corporate author, Year. Title of document or page, [type of medium]
Available at: include web site address/URL(Uniform Resource Locator) and additional details of access, such as the routing from the home page of the source. [Accessed date]
Marks & Spencer, 2004. Annual report 2003-2004. [Online] Available at: https://www-marks-and-spencer.co.uk/corporate/annual2003/ [Accessed 4 June 2005]
N.B. the URL should be underlined
It is good practice to keep in your files a copy of the front page of any website you use.

British Standard and International Standards

The required elements for a reference are:
Corporate author, Year. Identifying letters and numbers and full title of BS, Place of publication: Publisher.
British Standards Institution, 1990. BS 5555:1990 Recommendations for wiring identification. Milton Keynes: BSI.
International Standards Office, 1998. ISO 690 – 2 Information and documentation: Bibliographical references: Electronic documents.
Geneva: ISO.

Conference report

The required elements for a reference are:
Authorship author, editor or organisation, Year. Full title of conference report. Location, Date, Publisher: Place of publication.
UNDESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs), 2005. 6th Global forum on reinventing government: towards participatory and transparent governance. Seoul, Republic of Korea 24-27 May 2005. United Nations: New York.

Conference paper

The required elements for a reference are:
Authorship, Year. Full title of conference paper. In: followed by Editor or name of organisation, Full title of conference. Location, Date, Publisher: Place of publication.
Brown, J., 2005. Evaluating surveys of transparent governance. In: UNDESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs),
6th Global forum on reinventing government: towards participatory and transparent governance. Seoul, Republic of Korea 24-27 May 2005. United Nations: New York.

Dissertation

The required elements for a reference are:
Author, Year of publication. Title of dissertation. Level. Place of University (If not clear from the name of the University): Name of University.
Richmond, J., 2005. Customer expectations in the world of electronic banking: a case study of the Bank of Britain. Ph. D. Chelmsford: Anglia Ruskin University.

DVD or video, film and broadcasts

The required elements for a reference are:
Full title of DVD or video. Year of distribution. [Medium] Director (if relevant) Country or origin: Film studio or maker. (Other relevant details).
Great films from the 80s: a selection of clips from Warner Brothers top films from the 1980s. 2005 [DVD] New York: Warner Brothers.
Health for all children 3: the video., 2004. [Video] London: Child Growth Foundation. (Narrated by D.B.M. Hall).
For a Film the suggested elements should include:
Title. Year of release. [Medium] Director. Country of origin: Film studio.
Macbeth, 1948. [Film] Directed by Orson Wells. USA: Republic Pictures.
For a broadcast the suggested elements should include:
Series title and episode name and number if relevant, Year of broadcast. [Medium] Broadcasting organisation and Channel, date and time of transmission.
Little Britain, 2006. [TV programme] BBC, BBC2, 30 January 2006 20.00.

Map

The required elements for a reference are:
Map maker, Year of issue. Title of map. Map series, Sheet number, scale,
Place of publication: Publisher.
Ordnance Survey, 2006. Chester and North Wales. Landranger series, Sheet 106, 1:50000, Southampton: Ordnance Survey.

Pictures, Images and Photographs

The suggested elements for a reference are:
Artist/Photographers name, Year of production. Title of image. [Medium]
(Collection details).
Beaton, C., 1956. Marilyn Monroe. [Photograph] (Marilyn Monroe’s own private collection).
Beaton, C., 1944. China 1944: A mother resting her head on her sick child's pillow in the Canadian Mission Hospital in Chengtu. [Photograph] (Imperial War Museum Collection).
For an electronic reference the sugested elements are:
Artist/Photographers name, Year of production. Title of image. [medium]
Available at: include web site address/URL(Uniform Resource Locator) and additional details of access, such as the routing from the home page of the source.[Accessed date].
Dean, Roger, 2008 Tales from Topographic Oceans. [electronic print] Available at: https://rogerdean.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=48&products_id=88 From home page/store/calendar/august
[Accessed 18 June 2008].