| Harvard citation style is one of the few styles used | | | | searching the same information at the end of the |
| internationally by many publishers nowadays. Harvard | | | | work, in this way it safes time so to say, and besides, |
| style is based on the AGPS 5th edition. | | | | one might easily get to know and remember the name |
| It was created by the Harvard University and it is also | | | | of the author having seen it several times while reading |
| known as Harvard referencing, the author-date | | | | the paper. The disadvantage is that it takes more |
| system or parenthetical system. The fundamental thing | | | | space to provide the required information. After |
| to know about Harvard citation style is that it calls all | | | | providing a citation, the abbreviations like “page - (p.), |
| statements, opinions, conclusions or anything else taken | | | | pages - (pp.), section - (s.) or sections - (ss.)” are of |
| from another writer’s work to be cited no matter | | | | common use. In other words the most essential |
| how the material is taken. In this system the cited | | | | information on the source of citing is provided directly |
| material is referred to by giving the author’s | | | | after the citation. It is important for the material you |
| surname and the year of publication, that is all what | | | | cited from some other work to put both sources: the |
| expected of you to indicate when citing someone’s | | | | original and the one you took it from. In case more |
| material. The full list of references providing full | | | | than one source is provided for the same point, all |
| information on the cited material used in the work is | | | | sources should be indicated in order of publication date. |
| put at the end of the work in the alphabetized order. | | | | Lower case letters must be used after the date when |
| There are advantages and disadvantages of using this | | | | there is reference to a number of items published in |
| system The advantages of Harvard citation system is | | | | the same year by one and the same author. |
| that it allows to be aware of the source text without | | | | |