Convert your paper's entire reference list to Harvard style
One thing up front: Harvard has no single authoritative version - institutions differ in their details. We apply one widely used rule set, and you should check it against your own institution’s guide.
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What this style looks like
- In-text citation
- (Smith and Lee, 2023)
- Reference list entry
- Smith, J. and Lee, A. (2023) 'Deep learning for protein folding', Nature Methods, 20(3), pp. 245–258.
Why Harvard is confusing, and how it differs from APA
Harvard is not a standard maintained by any single body. APA is defined by the American Psychological Association’s manual, MLA by the Modern Language Association, OSCOLA by Oxford’s law faculty - each has one authoritative version. Harvard does not. It is an umbrella term for a family of author-date conventions, with individual university libraries publishing their own guides.
We standardize to one named variant - Cite Them Right - and apply it consistently rather than mixing conventions, so you always know which one you are checking against.
Three differences from APA get missed, because both are author-year styles and look nearly identical. Harvard joins multiple authors with "and" where APA uses an ampersand. Harvard wraps article titles in single quotation marks where APA uses sentence case with no quotes. Harvard writes page numbers with "pp." where APA omits it.
Individually small; across a whole paper, enough for a marker to conclude the formatting was never standardized.
FAQ
Which Harvard variant do you use?
Cite Them Right, the most widely circulated Harvard variant - see the worked example above. Because institutional guides differ, spot-check the result against your own institution’s guidance, particularly for web sources and unusual source types.
What if my university’s guide disagrees with your output?
Most differences are punctuation and abbreviation details you can adjust on a few entries. It is also worth checking whether your institution’s "Harvard" guide is actually closer to APA, which is common - if so, use the APA 7 page instead.
Will it change my body text?
No. The body is frozen throughout; only in-text citations and the reference list are processed. That is also why it costs far less than humanizing - 5 credits per 1,000 words.
Will the reference list be reordered?
Alphabetically by author surname.
What does it cost for one paper?
5 credits per 1,000 words - the cheapest of our four tools, because only the citations are processed. An 8,000-word paper runs about 40 credits (under $0.50). New accounts get 100 free credits.