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What an Elsevier (author-date/Harvard, capitalized In) reference looks like
Elsevier (author-date/Harvard, capitalized In) 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.
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.
Elsevier (author-date/Harvard, capitalized In) at a glance
Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.
- 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.
- The reference leaves the DOI out.
- 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 September 2012.
The guide this style follows: elsevier.com
How Elsevier (author-date/Harvard, capitalized In) compares with APA Style 7th edition
Where Elsevier (author-date/Harvard, capitalized In) differs:
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
- The reference leaves the DOI out.
- The reference list is single-spaced, where APA Style 7th edition is double-spaced.
- In the text it writes (Babonis and Martindale, 2022) where APA Style 7th edition writes (Babonis & Martindale, 2022).
The same journal article in APA Style 7th edition
Babonis, L. S., & Martindale, M. Q. (2022). A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS, 119(19), e2113701119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113701119
Frequently asked questions
How many authors does Elsevier (author-date/Harvard, capitalized In) 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, capitalized In) handle DOIs and web pages?
The reference leaves the DOI out. Web pages are cited without an access date.
How is the reference list ordered in Elsevier (author-date/Harvard, capitalized In)?
The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author. The reference list uses a hanging indent.
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