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Elsevier (author-date/Harvard, with titles) is an author-date style: the in-text citation gives the author surname and year in parentheses.
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Journal article
Babonis, L.S., Martindale, M.Q., 2022. A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS 119, e2113701119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113701119
Book
Kuhn, T.S., 1970. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press.
Web page
IPCC, 2021. Climate change 2021: the physical science basis [WWW Document]. URL https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/ (accessed 7.15.26).
In-text citation
(Babonis and Martindale, 2022)
Journal article with 26 authors
Harris, C.R., Millman, K.J., van der Walt, S.J., Gommers, R., Virtanen, P., Cournapeau, D., Wieser, E., Taylor, J., Berg, S., Smith, N.J., Kern, R., Picus, M., Hoyer, S., van Kerkwijk, M.H., Brett, M., Haldane, A., del Río, J.F., Wiebe, M., Peterson, P., Gérard-Marchant, P., Sheppard, K., Reddy, T., Weckesser, W., Abbasi, H., Gohlke, C., Oliphant, T.E., 2020. Array programming with NumPy. Nature 585, 357–362. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2
Elsevier (author-date/Harvard, with titles) at a glance
Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.
- Used mainly in biology.
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
- In the text, the same paper becomes (Harris et al., 2020).
- First names are shortened to initials.
- DOIs are printed as links (https://doi.org/...).
- Web pages are cited without an access date.
- The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author.
- The reference list uses a hanging indent.
- The style file was last updated in March 2014.
The guide this style follows: elsevier.com
How Elsevier (author-date/Harvard, with titles) compares with Ecology
Where Elsevier (author-date/Harvard, with titles) differs:
- DOIs are printed as links (https://doi.org/...).
- The reference list is single-spaced, where Ecology is double-spaced.
- In the text it writes (Babonis and Martindale, 2022) where Ecology writes (Babonis and Martindale 2022).
The same journal article in Ecology
Babonis, L. S., and M. Q. Martindale. 2022. A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS 119:e2113701119.
Frequently asked questions
How many authors does Elsevier (author-date/Harvard, with titles) list?
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26. In the text, the same paper becomes (Harris et al., 2020).
How does Elsevier (author-date/Harvard, with titles) handle DOIs and web pages?
DOIs are printed as links (https://doi.org/...). Web pages are cited without an access date.
How is the reference list ordered in Elsevier (author-date/Harvard, with titles)?
The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author. The reference list uses a hanging indent.
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