Harvard Referencing Style
Use the CDU guide
Use the CDU guide
Many of the sources that you use in this unit will be accessed online. So it is important that you know how to correctly cite these sources using Harvard Referencing style.
If you are not sure how to do this try these practice exercises.
To begin, download the CDU Harvard Referencing Guide. Look up what it says about how to reference internet sources.
Write a reference for Open Source Web Design
The guide provides this advice for a web site
Author/Organisation Site date, name of the sponsor of the source, place, date of viewing, <URL>.
The reference:
Sketting, K, 2007 Open Source Web Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, viewed day Month year,
<http://www.oswd.org />.
Comment
To find this information – the About Us and Footer sections of the site was viewed
Write a reference for Wikipedia's definition of Web 2.0
The guide provides this advice for a website document
Author/editor Date of document, Title of document – italicised, name of the sponsor of the source, date of viewing, <URL>.
The reference:
Wikipedia 2006, Web 2.0 Wikimedia Foundation, viewed day Month year,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web2.0>.
Comment
To find the name of the sponsor – the Footer information was used
Write a reference for Tim OReilly's article on Web 2.0
The guide provides this advice for a website document
Author/editor Date of document, Title of document – italicised, name of the sponsor of the source, date of viewing, <URL>.
The reference:
O’Reilly, T. 2005 What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software. O’Reilly Media , viewed February 09 2006,
<
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html >
Comment
To find the name of the organisation– the Footer information was used
Write a reference for Ali Jafari's article on Eportfolios in Educause Review
The guide provides this advice for a website document
Author/editor Date of document, Title of document – italicised, name of the sponsor of the source, date of viewing, <URL>.
The reference:
Jafari, A. 2004 The ‘Sticky” ePortfolio System:Tackling Challenges & Identifying Attributes. EDUCAUSE Review July/August. Viewed 5 November, 2006,
<http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm04/erm0442.asp>
Comment
Write a reference for the following journal article:
Jokela, T., Koivumaa, J., Pirkola, J., Salminen, P., and Kantola, N. 2006. Methods for quantitative usability requirements: a case study on the development of the user interface of a mobile phone. http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.cdu.edu.au/10.1007/s00779-005-0050-7
The guide provides this advice for a Website document
Author(s) of article - surname and initials Year of publication, ‘Title of article - in single quotation marks’, Journal name - italicised, volume number, issue number, page number(s), viewed month date, year, name of database.
The reference:
Jokela, T., Koivumaa, J., Pirkola, J., Salminen, P., and Kantola, N. 2006. ‘Methods for quantitative usability requirements: a case study on the development of the user interface of a mobile phone. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing vol. 10, no. 2, (October) pp.1-10, viewed 02 February 2007, ACM Digital Library.
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