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    Harvard (Cite Them Right), Cite Them Right, 12th edition. Used in: Most universities in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Harvard has no single manual; Cite Them Right is the version most universities adopt.

    • In-text citations give the author, year and page: (Kahneman, 2011, p. 20).
    • Web sources end with "Available at: URL (Accessed: date)".
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    Journal article

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    LeCun, Y., Bengio, Y. and Hinton, G. (2015) ‘Deep learning’, Nature, 521(7553), pp. 436–444. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14539.

    In-text citation

    (LeCun, Bengio and Hinton, 2015, p. 437)

    Book

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    Kahneman, D. (2011) Thinking, fast and slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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    (Kahneman, 2011, p. 20)

    Chapter in an edited book

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    Tversky, A. and Kahneman, D. (1982) ‘Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases’, in D. Kahneman, P. Slovic, and A. Tversky (eds) Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 3–20.

    In-text citation

    (Tversky and Kahneman, 1982, p. 4)

    Web page

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    World Health Organization (2023) Depression. Available at: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/depression (Accessed: 28 September 2026).

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    (World Health Organization, 2023)

    YouTube video

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    3Blue1Brown (2017) But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1 [YouTube video]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk (Accessed: 28 September 2026).

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    (3Blue1Brown, 2017, 4:15)

    Podcast episode

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    Glass, I. (2011) ‘Amusement park’, This American Life. WBEZ Chicago. Available at: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/443/amusement-park.

    In-text citation

    (Glass, 2011, 12:30)

    Lecture or speech

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    Pausch, R. (2007) ‘Really achieving your childhood dreams’. Journeys Lecture Series, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 18 September. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo.

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    (Pausch, 2007, 10:05)

    Newspaper article

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    Roose, K. (2023) ‘A conversation with Bing’s chatbot left me deeply unsettled’, The New York Times, 16 February. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html.

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    (Roose, 2023)

    Magazine article

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    Carr, N. (2008) ‘Is Google making us stupid?’, The Atlantic, July, pp. 56–63.

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    (Carr, 2008, p. 57)

    Report

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    World Health Organization (2022) World mental health report: Transforming mental health for all. Available at: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240049338.

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    (World Health Organization, 2022)

    Thesis or dissertation

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    Nash, J.F. (1950) Non-cooperative games. PhD thesis. Princeton University.

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    (Nash, 1950)

    Conference paper

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    Vaswani, A. et al. (2017) ‘Attention is all you need’, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. Curran Associates, pp. 5998–6008.

    In-text citation

    (Vaswani et al., 2017)

    Dataset

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    Fisher, R.A. (1988) ‘Iris’. UCI Machine Learning Repository. Available at: https://doi.org/10.24432/C56C76.

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    (Fisher, 1988)

    Film

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    Inception (2010). Warner Bros. Pictures.

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    (Inception, 2010, 1:12:05)

    Software or app

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    R Core Team (2023) R: A language and environment for statistical computing. Version 4.3.1. R Foundation for Statistical Computing. Available at: https://www.R-project.org/.

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    (R Core Team, 2023)

    ChatGPT or other AI

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    OpenAI (2023) ChatGPT [Large language model]. Mar 14 version. Available at: https://chat.openai.com/chat.

    In-text citation

    (OpenAI, 2023)

    Dictionary or encyclopedia entry

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    Merriam-Webster (no date) ‘Culture’, Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. Available at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture (Accessed: 28 September 2026).

    In-text citation

    (Merriam-Webster, no date)

    Preprint (arXiv, SSRN, bioRxiv)

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    Devlin, J. et al. (2018) ‘BERT: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding’. arXiv. Available at: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1810.04805.

    In-text citation

    (Devlin et al., 2018)

    Blog post

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    Karpathy, A. (2015) ‘The unreasonable effectiveness of recurrent neural networks’, Andrej Karpathy blog, 21 May. Available at: https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/.

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    (Karpathy, 2015)

    Court case

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    Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1.

    In-text citation

    (Mabo v Queensland (No 2), 1992, p. 42)

    Legislation

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    Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (1988).

    In-text citation

    (Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), 1988, sect. 6)

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    Citations are formatted by citeproc-js by Frank Bennett (CPAL-1.0, or AGPL-1.0), the engine behind Zotero and Mendeley, running the official Citation Style Language styles (10,863 styles, commit 2e93558) and locales (commit a89adec), used under CC BY-SA 3.0. AGLC4 citations use the LexIntellect AGLC4 engine, checked against the Guide's worked examples. Always check a citation against the manual or your institution's guide before you submit.

    Which edition of Harvard does this follow?

    Harvard (Cite Them Right): Cite Them Right, 12th edition, formatted from the harvard-cite-them-right style in the Citation Style Language repository. It is not yet checked against the examples in Cite Them Right, so check the final list against the manual. It also offers the 13th edition: choose it from the Edition menu. That edition is tested against its own rules, but not yet checked against the manual's printed examples.

    Who uses Harvard?

    Most universities in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Harvard has no single manual; Cite Them Right is the version most universities adopt.

    Is the Harvard generator free?

    Yes. No account, no limit, and every export (Word, BibTeX, RIS, CSL-JSON) is included. Your list stays in your browser.

    Where do the details come from when I paste a DOI or link?

    DOIs come from Crossref and DataCite, ISBNs from Open Library and Google Books, PubMed IDs from NCBI, arXiv IDs from arXiv, YouTube links from YouTube, and web pages from the citation metadata the publisher embeds in the page (the same tags Google Scholar reads). Pages that carry no metadata are filled in as far as possible and the gaps are flagged for you.

    Can I export to Word, Zotero, EndNote or LaTeX?

    Yes. Copy the list with its italics into Word or Google Docs, download a formatted .docx, or export BibTeX for LaTeX, RIS for EndNote, Zotero and Mendeley, or CSL-JSON.

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    Add the timestamp in the pinpoint box and paste the quote: the generator formats both for your style. To find the exact wording and the time it was said, get the full transcript of the video with timestamps first.