The following table provides a comparison of the differences between the outgoing UHI Harvard style and Harvard Cite Them Right (CTR).
Resource |
UHI Harvard Format |
CTR Harvard format |
CTR differences |
Printed book |
- Author.
- Year of publication (in round brackets)
- Title. (in italics)
- Edition. (if not the first edition).
- Place of publication: Publisher
|
- Author
- Year of publication (in round brackets)
- Title. (in italics)
- Edition. (edition number if not the first edn and/or rev. edn)
- Place of publication: Publisher.
- Series and volume number (where relevant).
|
Full stop at the end of the reference. |
Website or web resource |
- Author.
- (year of publication/update)
- Website or Resource Title
- [online].
- Available from
- <URL>
- [Day Month Year]
|
- Author.
- (year that the site was published/last updated)
- Title of web page.
- Available at: URL
- (Accessed: date)
|
- Full stop after title of web page.
- Available from is now Available at with a colon.
- URL is not in angle brackets.
- Date is in round, not square brackets.
- Accessed: comes before the date information.
- Full stop at the end of the reference.
|
Journal article |
- Author.
- (year of publication)
- ‘Article Title’.
- Journal Title
- volume number
- (issue number),
- page number-page number
|
- Author.
- (year of publication)
- ‘Title of article’,
- Title of Journal, (capitalise first letter of each word in title, except for linking words such as and, of, the, for)
- Issue information: volume (unbracketed) and, where applicable, part number, month or season (all in round brackets)
- Page reference (if available) or article number
If accessed online:
Available at: DOI or URL (if required) (Accessed: date)
|
- Comma instead of full stop after title of article.
- Comma after journal title.
- No space between volume and issue number, e.g., 2(1).
- pp. before page numbers.
- Full stop at the end of the reference unless the reference ends with a DOI.
|
Cite Them Right covers a wider variety of sources than UHI Harvard, including:
- Audio books
- Pamphlets
- Reprints and facsimile edition
- Ancient and historical formats
- Literature and cultural events
- Reference works
- Religious texts
- Translated and other languages
- Prepublication journal articles
- Systematic reviews
- Radio and internet radio
- Podcasts
- Lyrics from songs or hymns
- Films or movies
- Films on DVD or Blu-ray
- Films on video cassettes
- Directors' commentaries on DVD or Blu-ray
- Interviews with film directors
- Episodes of a television series
- Television programmes
- Television programmes or series on DVD or Blu-ray
- Separate episodes from DVD or Blu-ray box-sets
- Liner notes
- Music or sound recordings on audio cassettes
- Music or sound recordings on audio CDs or vinyl
- Book illustrations, figures, diagrams, logos and tables
- Geological Survey maps
- GIS maps
- Online maps
- Ordnance Survey maps
- Map datasets
- Medical images
- Screenshots
- Word clouds and infographics
- Circuses
- Concerts
- Dance
- Dances or plays filmed and viewed online
- Exhibitions
- Installations and exhibits
And much more.