Harvard Citation Generator
Author-date style widely used in U.K., Australian, and South African universities. Paste a link, DOI, ISBN, or arXiv ID — get a Harvard citation in one click.
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Author-date style widely used in U.K., Australian, and South African universities.
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Paste a link, DOI, ISBN, or arXiv ID above — we'll detect the type and fetch the rest.
About Harvard format
Harvard referencing is an author-date style similar to APA but with subtle punctuation and ordering differences. It's the default at most universities in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa across business and the sciences.
When to use Harvard
Harvard is the standard in UK / Australian universities, business, life sciences, social sciences. If your syllabus, professor, or target journal lists Harvard as the required style, this tool produces entries you can paste directly into your reference list with no further formatting needed.
How the Harvard citation generator works
- Paste a source. A URL, DOI, ISBN, or arXiv ID — the tool detects the type and fetches title, author, year, and other metadata from Crossref, OpenLibrary, or arXiv.
- Edit any field. Auto-filled metadata can be wrong. Switch to manual entry to fix the author order, add a missing publisher, or correct a date.
- Copy your Harvard citation. Click Copy and paste it into Word, Google Docs, or LaTeX. The plain-text version preserves italics through Unicode-friendly formatting that pastes cleanly into any editor.
- Build a bibliography. Save multiple sources, and the tool assembles them — alphabetized for Harvard, which sorts alphabetically by author surname.