Harvard Style for Social Work

Acknowledging Sources

"To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use another person's work. This means that whenever you use information obtained from another source including ideas, examples, theories or opinions, you must give a full reference to that source."

Language and Learning Skills Unit's Referencing Guide Acknowledging Sources

This guide

This guide, designed as an introduction to citing for Social Work students at the University of Melbourne, is sourced from the recommendations at Theorising Social Inequality: Referencing Suggestions .

The Harvard system (commonly known as an Author/Date method) does NOT have footnotes or footnote numbers. Cited references are:

• referred to in the text
• listed in a reference list at the end of the text.