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The free Harvard reference generator developed by Dr Michael Mullan has 37-wizards that cover virtually all the references that students encounter. More will be added if there is sufficient demand. The Harvard reference generator has been developed following many years of supervising students working on dissertations, managing education programmes and external examining.

If you have arrived at this page directly, through Google for example, you may also find the articles on referencing, the perils of Wikipedia, and the tools for evaluating the clarity of your writing useful also.

The application is very simple to use. Add the information requested e.g. author, year of publication, title of article to the form. The software will do the formatting. If you are not sure what is required click on the   symbol for an explanation. Note! The initials of authors, not their full names should be used! The attached screenshot may also be of some help.

When you have added the information click on the submit button and the citation will be generated. You can copy and paste this citation to your reference list or save the citation and produce a list of citations for later use. Note this list will not be arranged in date or alphabetical order, if you need a reference list use the free reference listing software.

If you need to cite a reference source that is not available in the wizards you may use this form to let me know. If enough people request this it will be added; I will try to post some hints on referencing your source on the forum in the meantime.

Note the Harvard system of referencing is not 'tightly' specified and some variation in the use of capital letters, italics, the use of parentheses and text styles does occur in different institutions and journals. Please check the 'house style' that is specified for your publication, thesis, dissertation or assignment before submitting your work.

How to cite this article

Mullan, W.M.A. (2008) [On-line]. Available: Accessed: