Harvard reference format 1 (deprecated)

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Example Citations

Website
World Health Organization (2023) Climate change. Available at: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health (Accessed: 15 October 2026).
In-text (World Health Organization, 2023)
Book
Lee, H. (1960) To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott.
In-text (Lee, 1960)
Journal Article
Watson, J.D. and Crick, F.H.C. (1953) ‘Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid’, Nature, 171(4356), pp. 737–738. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/171737a0.
In-text (Watson and Crick, 1953)
Newspaper Article
Wilford, J.N. (1969) ‘Men Walk on Moon’, The New York Times, 21 July, p. 1.
In-text (Wilford, 1969)

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