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Leeds Beckett 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) May, p. e2113701119. Available from: <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 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., Millman, K. J., Walt, S. J. van der, Gommers, R., Virtanen, P., Cournapeau, D., Wieser, E., Taylor, J., Berg, S., Smith, N. J., Kern, R., Picus, M., Hoyer, S., Kerkwijk, M. H. van, Brett, M., Haldane, A., Río, J. F. del, 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) September, pp. 357–362. Available from: <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2>.
Leeds Beckett 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 style file was last updated in July 2025.
The guide this style follows: library.leedsbeckett.ac.uk
How Leeds Beckett University (author-date/Harvard) compares with APA Style 7th edition
Where Leeds Beckett 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 Leeds Beckett 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 Leeds Beckett 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.
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