Books
Deakin’s Australian Harvard guide was retired in February 2026. Students should now use the referencing style required by their unit, such as APA7 or Chicago author-date. The former Harvard PDF is still available, but it is no longer maintained.
Deakin guide to Australian Harvard (PDF, 1.1 MB)
Last updated: 2 April 2026
Overview
In-text citations
The concept of race 'bears the traces of its origins in the biological discourse of social Darwinism' (Barker and Jane 2016:247).
Controlling is one of the four managerial functions that can be utilised to help describe what managers do (Williams et al. 2020).
Reference list
- Provide as much detail as is available. If a detail is not given, for example an edition or place of publication, simply leave it out.
- For the most part, the same information is provided for both print books and e-books.
- For older books (for example, when citing classical literature), the original year can be included as well as the year of the edition. See the Shakespeare example below.
- An e-reader edition of an e-book may need to be noted, as it may be a unique edition. For further details, see the Harvard topic: e-books.
- DOIs should be provided, where available. If provided there is no need to include a place of publication. For further details, see the Harvard Explained topic: DOIs and URLs.
Provide the following bibliographic details, where available, for both print books and e-books:
Author (year) Title of book: subtitle of book, edition, volume, (Editor/Reviser/Translator/Compiler), Publisher, Place of publication, DOI
Barker C and Jane EA (2016) Cultural studies: theory and practice, 5th edn, Sage, London.
Galeano E (1973) Open veins of Latin America: five centuries of the pillage of a continent (Belfrage C trans), Monthly Review Press, New York.
Hocking J (2008) Gough Whitlam: a moment in history: the biography, vol 1, Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton.
Maddison S and Denniss R (2013) An introduction to Australian public policy: theory and practice, 2nd edn, Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107255920.007
Shakespeare W (1600/1967) The merchant of Venice (Moelwyn W ed), Penguin, Harmondsworth.
Williams C, McWilliams A, Lawrence R and Waheduzzaman W (2020) MGMT4, 4th edn, Cengage Learning Australia, South Melbourne.
e-books
In-text citations
For e-books that do not have page numbers, you may cite:
- a chapter (‘Chapter title’)
- section title (‘Title of section’)
- paragraph number (para.).
Herodotus (2002:‘Book one’) gives his take on the Phoenician and Persian accounts.
Reference list
In most cases, reference list entries for e-books:
- are the same as for print books (with the addition of a DOI, if available)
- do not require a URL, a database name, nor a date of access.
For further details, see the Harvard Explained topic: DOIs and URLs.
For example, here is a reference list entry for an e-book accessed via a Deakin database. Note how it has the same details as for a print book.
e-book with no DOI:
Barker C and Jane EA (2016) Cultural studies: theory and practice, 5th edn, Sage, London.
e-book with DOI:
Maddison S and Denniss R (2013) An introduction to Australian public policy: theory and practice, 2nd edn, Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107255920.007
Marmot M and Wilkinson R (eds) (2009) Social determinants of health, 2nd edn, Oxford Scholarship Online, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198565895.001.0001
e-reader editions:
For e-reader editions of e-books that have differing (or no) page numbers (e.g. Kindle editions), provide the edition.
Herodotus (2002) The histories, Kindle edn, (Rawlinson G trans), Alfred A Knopf, New York.
Edition
Reference list
- Place the edition of the book after the title.
- If the book is a first edition, there is no need to note an edition number.
Author (year) Title of book, edition, Publisher, Place of publication.
Williams C, McWilliams A, Lawrence R and Waheduzzaman W (2020) MGMT4, 4th edn, Cengage Learning Australia, South Melbourne.
Note that ‘edition’ can refer also to an e-reader edition of an e-book – but note too that most e-books are not different editions and correspond to the equivalent print edition.
Author (year) Title of book, e-reader edition, (Translator trans), Publisher, Place of publication.
Herodotus (2002) The histories, Kindle edn, (Rawlinson G trans), Alfred A Knopf, New York.
Editors, translators
Reference list
The names of the editor (ed), editors (eds), compiler (comp), reviser (rev) or translator (trans) can be included in two ways:
- after the title (in brackets)
- or if these roles are of primary importance, they can be placed in the author position (in brackets).
Author (year) Title of book (Translator trans), Publisher, Place of publication.
Galeano E (1973) Open veins of Latin America: five centuries of the pillage of a continent (Belfrage C trans), Monthly Review Press, New York.
Compiler (comp) (year) Title of book, Publisher, Place of publication.
Smith JA (comp) (1969) The Faber book of children's verse, Faber and Faber, London.
Editors (eds) (year) Title of book, Publisher, Place of publication.
Becker WE, Watts M and Becker SR (eds) (2006) Teaching economics: more alternatives to chalk and talk, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.
Editors (eds) (year) Title of book, edition, Publisher, DOI
Marmot M and Wilkinson R (eds) (2009) Social determinants of health, 2nd edn, Oxford Scholarship Online, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198565895.001.0001
Place
Reference list
- The first-listed city of publication is placed after the publisher's name.
- If a DOI is provided there is no need to include a place of publication. For further details, see the Harvard Explained topic: DOIs and URLs.
Author (year) Title of book, edition, Publisher, Place of publication or DOI
Barker C and Jane EA (2016) Cultural studies: theory and practice, 5th edn, Sage, London.
Maddison S and Denniss R (2013) An introduction to Australian public policy: theory and practice, 2nd edn, Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107255920.007
The state or country of publication can be added for lesser known cities or where two cities might be confused.
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, UK
Milton, Qld.
Chapter
Note: When citing a chapter from a book written by a single author or single set of authors, cite as you would a whole book – there is no need to include the chapter title in the reference list entry.
When citing a chapter from an edited collection (a book of collected works by different authors), provide the author of the chapter (or preface, foreword or introduction) in the in-text citation.
In-text citations
Watts (2006:168) concludes that ...
Reference list
When citing a chapter from an edited collection, include the following:
- author of the chapter (or preface, foreword, introduction)
- title of chapter
- editor(s) of the book.
Author (year) 'Chapter title', in Editor (ed) Title of book, Publisher, Place of publication.
Watts M (2006) 'Team term papers and presentations', in Becker WE, Watts M and Becker SR (eds) Teaching economics: more alternatives to chalk and talk, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.