Harvard Referencing in the Bibliography and main text. + Appendixes

In the Bibliography, are all the different resources used, i.e. books, magazines, journals, periodicals, websites etc, all placed together in alphabetical order or are they separated up by sub-headings, so all the books in alphabetical order then under a heading of "journals" all the journals listed in alphabetical order etc?

Also, what does "pp" stand for/denote? Is it like this:

pg = a singular page but when referring to a range of pages do I write "pp" or "pgs"?

Because one of the Ph.D students confused me further by saying that "pp" denotes how many pages there are in a book altogether. But this doesn't make sense when I see something like "pp546-578" for example, unless the pages after 546 are referring to the Indexes and References etc, or the book starts on page number 546. :confused:

But then surely also you wouldn't have to reference all the pages from a book- just a fraction of them (though this does of course depend on how long the book in question is :p:

, although most of the ones I am going through atm, you could knock someone out with!).

When you write ranges of pages do you write either:

pp546-578 or pp546 - 578 or pp 546 - 578 or pgs instead of pp? In summary, how does the spacing go? (Picky I know but so is this referencing system, I find! :p:

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When you write the abbreviation for page(s) and then the numbers for a book or the numbers etc for a volume in a journal etc, do these and the referencing embodied within the essay/piece of writing, get counted in the word limit?

To extend the above, does what is written in the Bibliography get counted as part of the word count also?

Would anything written in an Appendix be included in the word limit also? In fact, if I am doing essays in the region of 1000 to 1500 words long (word limit) then should I be using an Appendix/is it appropriate for me to include an Appendix at the end? Like if there was any information that I had gleamt of which I could say I make it relevant to the essay question as that being one of the ways in which I have interpreted the essay question as to being, and have stated that this is so in order to reinforce/point out ant relevancy- if I had this little bit of information but even me: myself feels as though it really is too tenacious and implicit a link to hold any relevancy or appropriateness to the essay question at all, may I do well/better to create an Appendix so as to write that there? Because it shouldn't really eat up the word limit either. Because then it shows some organisation and further appreciation perhaps that wouldn't be known if I was to just miss it out completely?

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Reply 20

puppy

HJV

Your point is?

Are you seriously trying to argue that a U of Cambridge style guide on their website will contradict their course handbook?

Feel free to look up any of those, they're all on google.

Would you not consider information coming from Cambridge to be better than some from the Polytechnic of Middle of Nowhere?

Ermm I read Classics at Cambridge and my footnotes will most certainly be counted towards the word count in my thesis.

Reply 21

I use pp to denote the pages an article covers in a journal, so while the journal may be 1500 pages long, the article I'm looking at is only pp750-775. An example of how I use it from one of my recent essays:

13. Barron, Caroline M. (1968). ‘The Tyranny of Richard II’. BIHR. Vol. XLI No. 103. PP1-19. P11.

Reply 22

Elements

Thought I would revive this old thread of mine to ask another question with regards to Harvard referencing rather than take up forum space starting another thread on it! :p:

You know when an article or book has more than one author to it- Well when referencing it in bibliography do you have to list all of the authors for that one reference in alphabetical order too? Just wondering because a) the journal articles themselves don't always list the collaborators in alphabetical order and b) it is a pain to do so especially when referencing any of the IPCC WG Report volumes! :eek:

Plus I'm not quite sure whether I'm meant to or not. :o:

Does anyone know what the right way to go about doing this is? Thank-you. :girl:

Reply 23

Tom

If it's really a shedload of names then just picking the most important three is OK I *think*.

If you look on the IPCC papers for instance I'm sure they put like 2 or 3 or 4 top names on a line above the mass of other contributors, and you can cite just them.

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