Author-year citation style

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The author-year citation , also known as Harvard citation , is a way of citing texts. The reference to the bibliography is made by mentioning the author's last name (s), year of publication and, if applicable, the number of pages of the cited publication in a short reference.

These abbreviations do not act as complete references, but as systematic references to the actual references in the bibliography. The directory and the references used in the text must therefore correspond completely. The author-year citation is used in the running text.

This citation is particularly widespread in the natural and social sciences .

regulate

In order to keep the quotations in the text as short as possible, the authors are quoted without first names.

If there are more than two authors, in some citation styles the information can be shortened to the first author and the presence of other authors with et al. (seldom also & al. , et alii or u. a. ) are displayed. In APA style , there are different rules.

If there are several articles by the same first author in the same year, both in the bibliography and in the author-year citation in the text, the articles are appended to the year with different lower case letters (a, b, ...).

example

The text cites or refers to a work which could look like one of the following examples of forms of representation in the bibliography of the work:

  • Nordqvist, Sven (1984) A birthday cake for the cat. Hamburg: sample publisher. (Most common form)
  • Nordqvist, S. 1984. A birthday cake for the cat , sample publisher: Hamburg.
  • Nordquist, S .: A birthday cake for cats , Hamburg 1984.
  • Nordqvist, S .: A birthday cake for cats , Hamburg, 1984, pp. 12-30.
  • Nordqvist, S., A birthday cake for cats , Musterverlag, Hamburg, 1984.

With the author-year citation, information in running text, tables or graphics such as See Nordqvist (1984) or See Nordqvist (1984, p. 25) corresponds exactly to the entry in the bibliography that contains an author named Nordqvist and the year 1984 . If the quotation does not belong to the text itself, but only proves it, it is named in round or square brackets after the text to be occupied: (Nordqvist 1984, p. 25). Common variants are the insertion of a comma after the name of the author, e.g. B. Nordqvist, 1984, p. 25 or the separation of a page number with a colon, so z. B. (Nordqvist 1984: 25) .

literature

  • Martin Kornmeier: Scientific writing made easy . 4th edition. UTB (Haupt) Verlag, Mannheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-8252-3154-5 , pp. 276-284 .
  • Helmut Balzert et al .: Scientific work - science, sources, artifacts, organization, presentation . 1st edition. W3L GmbH, Herdecke 2008, ISBN 978-3-937137-59-9 , p. 114-125 .

Weblinks / Notes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 5th edition 2012, 6th edition 2013, 7th edition 2016 ( ISBN 978-3825246013 )