Harvard Reference Generator
Paste DOIs and copy references in Harvard (Cite Them Right).
Paste one or more DOIs and the tool formats them in Harvard (Cite Them Right) using the official Citation Style Language style, with metadata from Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex. You can switch to any other journal style on the same page.
Free, runs in your browser. Nothing you enter is uploaded.
Questions
What does a journal article look like in Harvard style?
For the AlphaFold paper the generator gives: Jumper, J. et al. (2021) “Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold,” Nature, 596(7873), pp. 583–589. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2.
How do in-text citations work in Harvard?
Harvard uses author and year in brackets: (Jumper et al., 2021). Universities use slightly different Harvard variants, so check your course guide; you can pick another Harvard style under Change.
How many authors do I list in Harvard?
Cite Them Right lists up to 3 authors in the reference. With 4 or more, give the first author followed by et al.
How do I cite a DOI in Harvard?
Paste the DOI, one per line, and press Continue. The generator reads the publisher's Crossref record and formats it in Harvard (Cite Them Right). Paste up to 50 DOIs to build a whole reference list.
Can I format for a specific journal instead?
Yes. Press Change above the results and search by journal name or abbreviation. The list covers more than 10,800 journal styles from the Citation Style Language repository used by Zotero and Mendeley.
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