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Swinburne University of Technology (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, LS & Martindale, MQ 2022, ‘A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians’, PNAS, vol. 119, no. 19, p. e2113701119.
Book
Kuhn, TS 1970, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press.
Web page
IPCC 2021, Climate change 2021: the physical science basis, viewed 15 July 2026, <https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/>.
In-text citation
(Babonis & Martindale 2022)
Journal article with 26 authors
Harris, CR, Millman, KJ, van der Walt, SJ, Gommers, R, Virtanen, P, Cournapeau, D, Wieser, E, Taylor, J, Berg, S, Smith, NJ, Kern, R, Picus, M, Hoyer, S, van Kerkwijk, MH, Brett, M, Haldane, A, del Río, JF, Wiebe, M, Peterson, P, Gérard-Marchant, P, Sheppard, K, Reddy, T, Weckesser, W, Abbasi, H, Gohlke, C & Oliphant, TE 2020, ‘Array programming with NumPy’, Nature, vol. 585, no. 7825, pp. 357–362.
Swinburne University of Technology (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.
- The reference leaves the DOI out.
- Web pages include the date you accessed them.
- The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author.
- The style file was last updated in July 2025.
The guide this style follows: swinburne.edu.au
How Swinburne University of Technology (author-date/Harvard) compares with APA Style 7th edition
Where Swinburne University of Technology (author-date/Harvard) differs:
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
- 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.
- The reference list has no hanging indent, which APA Style 7th edition uses.
- In the text it writes (Babonis & 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 Swinburne University of Technology (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 Swinburne University of Technology (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 Swinburne University of Technology (author-date/Harvard)?
The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author.
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