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Anglia Ruskin University (author-date/Harvard) 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. and Martindale, M.Q., 2022. A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS, 119(19), p.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. [online] Available at: <https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/> [Accessed 15 July 2026].
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. and Oliphant, T.E., 2020. Array programming with NumPy. Nature, 585(7825), pp.357–362. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2.
Anglia Ruskin University (author-date/Harvard) 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.
- DOIs are printed as links (https://doi.org/...).
- Web pages include the date you accessed them.
- The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author.
- The style file was last updated in January 2023.
The guide this style follows: libweb.anglia.ac.uk
How Anglia Ruskin University (author-date/Harvard) compares with APA Style 7th edition
Where Anglia Ruskin University (author-date/Harvard) differs:
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
- Web pages include the date you accessed them.
- The reference list is single-spaced, where APA Style 7th edition is double-spaced.
- The reference list has no hanging indent, which APA Style 7th edition uses.
- 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 Anglia Ruskin University (author-date/Harvard) 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 Anglia Ruskin University (author-date/Harvard) handle DOIs and web pages?
DOIs are printed as links (https://doi.org/...). Web pages include the date you accessed them.
How is the reference list ordered in Anglia Ruskin University (author-date/Harvard)?
The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author.
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