A simple example showing how to create Harvard style referencing in LaTeX

Author

John Hammersley

License

Creative Commons CC BY 4.0

Abstract

The following examples show how to produce Harvard style references using biblatex.

See this post on TeX StackExchange for further discussion on the Harvard referencing style, and this post for more details on switching to biblatex if you're more familiar with e.g. natbib.

A simple example showing how to create Harvard style referencing in LaTeX

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{csquotes}% Recommended

\usepackage[style=authoryear-ibid,backend=biber]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{sample.bib}% Syntax for version >= 1.2

\title{A simple example showing how to create Harvard style referencing in LaTeX}
\author{WriteLaTeX}
\date{}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
The following examples show how to produce Harvard style referencing using biblatex.
\end{abstract}

\section*{Citation examples}

\begin{enumerate}
\item A citation command in parentheses: \parencite{Smith:2012qr}.
\item A citation command for use in the flow of text: As \textcite{Smith:2013jd} said \dots
\item A citation command which automatically switches style depending on location and the option setting in the package declaration (see line 12 in the LaTeX source code). In this case, it produces a citation in parentheses: \autocite{Other:2014ab}.
\end{enumerate}

\printbibliography

\end{document}