411 REFERENCE · Wiktionary
Harvard format
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English
Harvard referencing,Vancouver system
Etymology
So named because Harvard University was a place where its use was common, at a time when today's generic names for referencing systems (author-date and author-number) hadn't yet acquired any degree of establishment.
Noun
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The author-date method of parenthetical referencing, one of several standard formats for citing information from any source bibliographically.
en referencing#Noun ; format ; style ; method