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| 1 | Have you checked if your lecturer has any special referencing requirements, for example page numbers for all citations or no hyperlinks? | If your lecturer states specific requirements for referencing, these override CDU Harvard style, and you must incorporate them in your assignment. Check in your Learnline unit information, or with your lecturer directly. |
| 2 | Do your references appear at the end of your document, on a new page? | References are listed at the end of your document. Insert a page break to start the references on a new page. |
| 3 | Are your references headed by the title References, centred and bold? | This is the exact formatting required. |
| 4 | Are your references in alphabetical order by first named author, or title if there is no author (Listed sequentially – top to bottom)? | Ignore the words ‘A’, ‘An’, and ‘The’ when alphabetising by title. |
| 5 | Are your references double spaced? | Regardless of spacing required for assignments, your reference list must be double-spaced. |
| 6 | Are your references left aligned? | Regardless of alignment required for assignments, you must left align the references. |
| 7 | Have you followed the CDU Harvard examples in this guide, including punctuation, spaces, italics, parenthesis etc.? |
| 8 | Have you cited and referenced all resources used? |
Whenever you use information from a resource in your text, an in-text citation is needed to show your reader where you found the information. An in-text citation consists of the author's family name/organisation name and year, while the reference added at the end of your document includes full details of the resource. |
| 9 | Do all your references have a matching in-text citation and vice versa? |
References cited in text must appear in the reference list and vice versa. The only exceptions to this rule are ‘Personal communication’ and ‘Traditional knowledge’. |
| 10 | Have you shortened URLs that are longer than two lines, using a URL shortening service? |
URL shortening service: https://tinyurl.com/ Reminder: check ALL URLs work before submitting |
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Have you followed the rule of capitalisation for your titles and journal titles? Video – A capital idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYHXIKikiAA |
Capitalisation is very specific: - In titles and subtitles of articles, chapters, books, reports and webpage titles, capitalise only the first letter of the first word of the title, the subtitle and any proper nouns. - For journal titles you must capitalise the first letter of every word (except for words like ‘in’, ‘at’, ‘of’, ‘the’, ‘and’). |
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Have you followed the format for author initials, the author’s last name is placed at the start followed by the initial? |
Examples: Robert Mark Smith will appear as Smith, RM |
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If your resource did not have a date, did you use n.d. (no date)? |
Example of reference: Author n.d., Title, URL Example of in-text citation: (Author n.d.) |
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If you have resources with the same author, but different dates, have you listed the references in chronological order (oldest first)? |
Example of reference: Hong, BH & Yeung, KL 2001, … Hong, BH & Yeung, KL 2009, … Example of in-text citation: (Hong & Yeung 2001) Hong & Yeung 2009) If both resources used in the same sentence (Hong & Yeung 2001; 2009)
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If you have resources with the same author and the same date, have you added a letter after the date? Have you added the same letter after the date in the matching in-text citation? |
Example of reference: Smith, JR 2008a, Ancient civilisation… Smith, JR 2008b, Roman times… Example of in-text citation: (Smith 2008a) (Smith 2008b)
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If you have resources with the same author and no date, have you added a hyphen and a letter after n.d.? Have you added the same letter after the date in the matching in-text citation? |
Example of reference: St John n.d.-a, Burns, URL St John n.d.-b, Scalds, URL Example of in-text citation: (St John n.d.-a)
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Have you explained all your abbreviations before using them? |
It is possible to use an abbreviated version of an organisational author in text, but you must use it in full the first time. In-text example: (World Health Organization [WHO] 2014). Use square brackets if it is within parentheses. Show subsequent citations as (WHO 2014). In your reference list use the full name of the author.
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If you use EndNote to manage your references have you downloaded the CDU Harvard EndNote style? |
http://libguides.cdu.edu.au/endnote
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