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What a King's College London (author-date/Harvard) reference looks like
King's College London (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. & Martindale, M. Q. (2022) A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS. [Online] 119 (19), 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 [online]. Available from: 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. et al. (2020) Array programming with NumPy. Nature. [Online] 585 (7825), 357–362.
King's College London (author-date/Harvard) at a glance
Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.
- Used mainly in the humanities.
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names only the first author and shortens the rest.
- 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 include the date you accessed them.
- The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author.
- The reference list uses a hanging indent.
- The style file was last updated in February 2018.
The guide this style follows: kcl.ac.uk
How King's College London (author-date/Harvard) compares with APA Style 7th edition
Where King's College London (author-date/Harvard) differs:
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names only the first author and shortens the rest.
- The reference leaves the DOI out.
- Web pages include the date you accessed them.
- 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 King's College London (author-date/Harvard) list?
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names only the first author and shortens the rest. In the text, the same paper becomes (Harris et al., 2020).
How does King's College London (author-date/Harvard) handle DOIs and web pages?
The reference leaves the DOI out. Web pages include the date you accessed them.
How is the reference list ordered in King's College London (author-date/Harvard)?
The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author. The reference list uses a hanging indent.
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