Parenthetical referencing

The author-year citation, also called Harvard citation, is a kind of citation in text. When you done short references to the bibliography by the naming of the author name (s ), year of publication and, where appropriate, page number of the cited publication.

These reductions act not as a complete source of proof, but as a systematic links to the actual references in the bibliography. The directory and the references used in the text must therefore completely correspond. The author-year citation style is used in the text.

Particularly widespread this citation is in the natural and the social sciences.

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To keep the in-text citations as short as possible, the authors are cited without first names.

If there are more than two authors, the indication may be shortened to the first author; the presence of other authors, in this case, et al. displayed ( rarely also & al., et alii or et al ).

There are several articles by the same author in the same year, a lowercase letter is used both in the bibliography and in the author-year citation (a, b, ... ) is appended to the year.

The text is quoted from a work or noted in the bibliography that looks like this ( alternative forms of presentation ):

• Nordqvist, Sven: A birthday cake for the cat, Hamburg 1984
• Nordqvist, S.: A birthday cake for the cat, Hamburg, 1984, pp. 12-30
• Nordqvist, S.: A birthday cake for the cat pattern Verlag, Hamburg, 1984
• Nordqvist, S.: A birthday cake for the cat pattern Publisher: Hamburg, 1984

The most common is to put the year in parentheses after the author's name (where several redundant punctuation marks can be saved ):

• Nordquist, Sven (1984 ) A birthday cake for the cat. Hamburg: Verlag pattern.

In the author-year citation style now corresponds to the statement " See for more details Nordqvist (1984, p.25). " Exactly the bibliography entry which contains a writer named Nordqvist and the year digits 1984. Alternatively, the following are cited in the text: [ Nordqvist 1984, p 25 ] or ( Nordqvist 1984, p 25) or each with comma after the author's name, thus: [ Nordqvist, 1984, p 25 ] or ( Nordqvist, 1984, p 25). It is also possible, while saving the page for page and superfluous commas: [ Nordqvist 1984: 25 ] or ( Nordqvist 1984: 25).