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Harvard is an author-date referencing style requiring an in-text citation within the text of your document and a related entry in a reference list at the end of your document.

Web page - reference list

Web page title: The Web page title is in italics and sentence case, i.e., capitalise the first letter of the first word and the first word after a colon. Use capitalisation for proper nouns.

Note: For reports, articles, electronic books, or chapters accessed online, see the relevant section for how to cite them. They are not referenced as a web page.

For more information on reference list format and style, see General Information -  Basics of Referencing.

Format 

Author. Date (last updated). Title of web page [Online]. Available: https://xxx.

Example

Maltin, L. (2015). When Disney got trippy [Online]. Available: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151112-when-disney-got-adult-and-trippy

Web page - in-text citations

Parenthetical citation: When you use another person’s ideas or words in your text, include the author’s name, publication date and page number/s in brackets, generally at the end of the sentence,  e.g. ... services closer to home (Bishop, 2024: 23).

Narrative citation: If you use the author’s name as part of a sentence, include the date of publication and page number/s in brackets, generally at the beginning of the sentence, e.g. Bishop (2024: 43) argued that time was ...

Parenthetical citation

Walt Disney's creativity was a hallmark of his animated films (Maltin, 2015). 

Narrative citation

Maltin (2015) discussed one of Walt Disney's most amazing films.