How to Cite in the University of Sheffield Harvard Referencing Style

the author and year in round brackets, or put the author into the sentence and place the year after the name, and add page numbers when you quote directly or refer to a specific part. Sheffield also states that you name up to three authors in the citation, use et al. for four or more, separate multiple sources with semicolons in chronological order, and avoid ibid. and idem. in Harvard referencing.

the name of the person or organisation that posted the video, the year posted, the video title, the upload date if available, the URL, and the access date. Sheffield places video-sharing sites such as YouTube, Vimeo, TED, and IGTV in the same family of sources, and it advises adding a timestamp in the in-text citation if you need a precise moment in the video.

all names for two and three authors with “and” between the final names, but use only the first author followed by et al. when there are four or more authors. The same rule applies in the reference list and the in-text citation, and Sheffield specifically prefers “and” rather than “&”.

the same Sheffield author-date method and give the author, year, thesis title, thesis type, awarding institution, and URL, plus access date if it is online. The extracted Sheffield pages I accessed do not show a dedicated thesis example, so this is the correct Sheffield-style application of the general rule for full source identification.

the title of the Act and the year as the core reference, because the Sheffield guide places Acts of Parliament under government publications. The extracted pages I accessed point to that government publication category rather than showing the full Act pattern in the same excerpt, so the examples below apply the same Sheffield author-date logic in the usual legal form.

the same author-date method and give the host or producer, year, episode title, podcast title, medium, date, and URL plus access date where relevant. The extracted Sheffield pages do not show a dedicated podcast example, so this follows the same logic Sheffield uses for named digital media and online audiovisual sources.

the presenter, year, lecture title, medium in square brackets, event or module name, and URL with access date if the lecture slides or recording are retrievable online. Sheffield gives this pattern for presentations, and that is the closest explicit source type for lectures in the extracted guide.

the interviewee or interviewer details, the year, the interview title or description, the medium, and enough context to identify whether it is published, recorded, or unpublished. The extracted Sheffield pages do not show a dedicated interview example, so the safest Sheffield-style approach is to follow the general author-date rule and describe the medium clearly.

the title of the page in italics in place of the author, then give the year, the URL, and the access date. Sheffield states this rule directly for web pages with no named author and also notes that you should use “no date” if no publication or update year can be found.