SAGE - Harvard Referencing Guide

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This is the Citationsy guide to SAGE - Harvard citations, reference lists, in-text citations, and bibliographies.
The complete, comprehensive guide shows you how easy citing any source can be. Referencing books, youtube videos, websites, articles, journals, podcasts, images, videos, or music in SAGE - Harvard.

How to do citations in SAGE - Harvard style?

How do you cite a book in the SAGE - Harvard referencing style?

Here’s an example book citation in SAGE - Harvard using placeholders:

Last Name FN (2000) Title. Edition. Editor Last Name EFN (ed.). City: Publisher.

So if we want to cite, for example, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by Joanne K. Rowling we’d do so like this:
SAGE - Harvard citation:

Rowling JK (1997) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. 1st ed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.

And an in-text citation book citation in SAGE - Harvard looks like this: (Rowling, 1997)

How to reference a journal article in the SAGE - Harvard citation style?
How do you cite scientific papers in SAGE - Harvard format?

Here’s a SAGE - Harvard journal citation example using placeholders:

Author1 LastnameAF and Author3 LastnameAF (2000) Title. Container Volume(Issue). Journal Name: pages Used. DOI: DOI.

So if we want to reference this scientific article: “Testing consumer preferences for iced-coffee: Does the drinking environment have any influence?” by C. Petit and J.M. Sieffermann in SAGE - Harvard:

Petit C and Sieffermann J (2007) Testing consumer preferences for iced-coffee: Does the drinking environment have any influence?. 18(1). Food Quality and Preference: 161-172. DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2006.05.008.

And an in-text citation would look like this: (Petit and Sieffermann, 2007)

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How to cite a website in a paper in SAGE - Harvard style?

Here’s an SAGE - Harvard example website reference:

Author1 LastnameAF and Author2 LastnameAF (2000) Title. Publisher. Available at: https://www.example.com (accessed 31 July 2021).

To reference the article located at this link:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/05/uselections20083
on The Guardian website:

Tran M (2008) Barack Obama To Be America’s First Black President. The Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/05/uselections20083 (accessed 31 July 2021).

And an in-text citation would look like this: (Tran, 2008)

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How to cite a YouTube video SAGE - Harvard

Here’s a SAGE - Harvard citation YouTube video example:

ChannelName (2000) Title. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXX (accessed 31 July 2021).

So how to cite a video SAGE - Harvard?

Pixar (2015) Pizza Clip — Inside Out. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W6rntBADUQ (accessed 31 July 2021).

And an in-text video citation would look like this: (Pixar, 2015)

How to cite a podcast using SAGE - Harvard referencing style

It is becoming more and more common to reference podcasts in essays or other school work.
Here’s how to reference a podcast it in SAGE - Harvard.

Lastname F (2000) Title. Publisher. Available at: http://www.example.com (accessed 31 July 2021).

Podcast referencing example in SAGE - Harvard using “This American Life” episode 640:

This American Life (2018) 640: Five Women. WBEZ Radio. Available at: https://thisamericanlife.org/640/five-women (accessed 31 July 2021).

And an in-text citation would look like this: (This American Life, 2018)

How to cite a piece of music or a song using SAGE - Harvard referencing style?

An example song citation in SAGE - Harvard.

Lastname F (2000) Song Title. Album. Available at: http://www.example.com (accessed 31 July 2021).

Let‘s say we want to reference “Here Comes the Sun” off The Beatles “Abbey Road” album in SAGE - Harvard:

The Beatles (1969) Here Comes the Sun. Abbey Road. Available at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/here-comes-the-sun/401186200?i=401187150 (accessed 31 July 2021).

And an in-text citation would look like this: (The Beatles, 1969)

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