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LSBU Harvard Referencing: White (policy statement) paper

• Act of Parliament
• Artwork on location
• Bill (House of Commons)
• Bill (House of Lords)
• Bloomberg data
• Book (edited book)
• Book (print book)
• British National Formulary (BNF) (print)
• British National Formulary (BNF) (online)
• British Standard
• Chapter in an edited book
• Command papers
• Company report
• Conference proceedings (online)
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• Confidential information
• Conversation
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• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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• Dance (live)
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• Edited book
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• Film (streamed)
• Financial report
• Films on DVD/Blu Ray
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• Government Bill
• Government Departmental report
• Government Inquiry
• Green (consultation) paper
• Hansard (historical)
• Image found within a book/journal article/website
• Image (online)
• International Government documents
• Journal article (online)
• Journal article (print)
• Kindle e-book
• Lecture materials
• Legal cases
• Letter (from an online archive or collection)
• Letter (in an archive or collection)
• Lyrics from songs or hymns
• Magazine article (online)
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• Manuscript (collection)
• Manuscript/Archival source (individual, named author)
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• Map (from an archive)
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• Market Research report
• Newspaper article (online)
• Newspaper article (print)
• NICE guidelines
• Online image
• Online video
• Music or Spoken Word Recordings on audio CDs or vinyl
• Music - Tracks on a CD or vinyl album
• Music - whole albums
• Musical Scores (Sheet Music)
• Pamphlet (from an online archive)
• Parliamentary debate
• Parliamentary debate (historical)
• Photograph (in an archive)
• Play (live)
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• Play (recent edition)
• Play (translated)
• Programme (for a play)
• Radio programme
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• Report (online)
• Report (print)
• Radio Programmes heard on the internet
• Social media
• Systematic review
• Thesis (online)
• Thesis (print)
• Translated works
• TV programme
• TV programme (Box of Broadcasts)
• TV programme (streamed)
• Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) materials
• White (policy statement) paper
• YouTube video
• Secondary referencing
• Reference List/Bibliography
• Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
• General guidelines for referencing online resources
• General style guidelines
• Missing information
• Punctuation in referencing
• Referencing your own non-published work
• Sources with approximate publication dates
• Referencing preprints
• Referencing software

Best Practice tips

What are Command Papers?

Government publications presented to Parliament are known as Command Papers. Most Command Papers are published in a numbered series.

• White papers - statements of government policy and proposals for legislation
• Green papers - government consultation documents
• Reports from Royal Commissions and some other inquiries
• State papers, including international treaties
• Government responses to some Select Committee reports
• Annual reports and statistics from some government bodies.

Find the citation details via this useful website http://www.parliament.uk/ business/publications/com mittees/recent-reports/

Format of the reference

You will need:

• Name of committee or Royal commission
• Year of publication
• Title of the paper
• Paper number
• Web address
• Date accessed

Name of committee or Royal commission (Year of publication) Title of paper (Paper number). Available from: www.webaddress.com   [Accessed day month year].

Department for Education (2021) Skills for jobs: lifelong learning for ppportunity and growth (CP 338). Available from: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/953510/skills-for-jobs-lifelong-learning-for-opportunity-and-growth.pdf [Accessed 27 January 2021].

In-text citation: (Leveson, 2012)

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Report/Government agency publication

Reference : Name of government department (Year) Title . Place of publication: Publisher (Series if applicable). Available at: URL [Accessed Day Month Year].

Example : Department of Health & Children (2006) ‘ A vision for change’ report of the expert group on mental health policy '. Dublin: Stationery Office. Available at: http://www.dohc.ie/publications/vision_for_change.html [Accessed 11 April 2010].

In-Text-Citation :

• Department (Year)
• (Department, Year)
• The Department of Health & Children (2006) have shown….
• In a similar report (Department of Health & Children, 2006) it was shown…

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Parliamentary and legal material

Reference : Government of Country. Title (Year) Place of Publication: Publisher.

Example : Government of Ireland. Human Rights Commission Act. (2000) Dublin: Stationery Office.

• (Country. Title of Legislation Year )
• Legislation outlawing any barriers to education (Ireland. Human Rights Commission Act 2000 )....

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EU publications

Reference : Name of EU Institution (Year) Title . Place of Publication: Publisher.

Example : European Commission (2003) Making globalisation work for everyone . Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.

• (Name of EU Institution, Year)
• The predicted growth (European Commission, 2003) did not occur….

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