Harvard (Cite Them Right 12th edition) references and in-text citations from a DOI, ISBN, URL or title, with the rules explained. Export the list to Word.
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Paste a DOI, an ISBN, a link or a title and the tool finds the publisher's own record for it and formats it in Harvard (Cite Them Right 12th edition) — the author–date system used in UK and Australian universities across business, health, education, the sciences and the humanities. The reference list entry and the in-text citation come together, and the rules are those of the Cite Them Right, 12th edition, by Richard Pears and Graham Shields (Bloomsbury, 2022), published by no single body — Harvard is a family of author–date styles, and the version here follows Cite Them Right, the guide most UK universities adopt. The 12th edition of Cite Them Right was published in 2022.
If your university publishes its own Harvard guide, it takes precedence over Cite Them Right where the two differ — usually in small matters of punctuation.
Three steps, about twenty seconds a source.
A DOI, an ISBN, a PubMed or arXiv ID, a web address, or a title. Harvard is already selected on this page. The tool works out what you pasted and asks the right catalogue — Crossref, OpenLibrary, PubMed, DataCite or Semantic Scholar — for the record.
Each source gets a card showing what the catalogue held and what the tool changed to fit Harvard: a title converted to sentence case, a DOI reduced to its bare form, a page range tidied. Every change can be undone with one click if the record was right as it was.
Copy the list with its formatting into Word or Google Docs, or download a .docx with the numbering and spacing already set. BibTeX, RIS and CSL-JSON exports carry the same data into Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote or LaTeX.
The rules the tool applies, from the Cite Them Right, 12th edition, by Richard Pears and Graham Shields (Bloomsbury, 2022).
Six real sources — two journal articles, a book, a chapter, a web page and a conference paper — formatted by the same engine that runs the generator above. Nothing here was typed by hand, so what you see is what you get.
AI Writing Assistant (no date) Free AI writing tools: What each does and when to use it, AI Writing Assistant. Available at: https://www.aiwritingassistant.net/tools.html (Accessed: September 18, 2026).
In text: (AI Writing Assistant, no date)
Golder, S.A. and Macy, M.W. (2011) “Diurnal and seasonal mood vary with work, sleep, and daylength across diverse cultures,” Science, 333(6051), pp. 1878–1881. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1202775.
In text, citing page 1880: (Golder and Macy, 2011, p. 1880)
Grice, H.P. (1975) “Logic and conversation,” in P. Cole and J.L. Morgan (eds.) Syntax and Semantics, Volume 3: Speech Acts. New York: Academic Press, pp. 41–58.
In text, citing page 45: (Grice, 1975, p. 45)
Kahneman, D., Knetsch, J.L. and Thaler, R.H. (1991) “Anomalies: The endowment effect, loss aversion, and status quo bias,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 5(1), pp. 193–206. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.5.1.193.
In text: (Kahneman, Knetsch and Thaler, 1991)
Kuhn, T.S. (2012) The structure of scientific revolutions. 4th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
In text, citing page 12: (Kuhn, 2012, p. 12)
Vaswani, A. et al. (2017) “Attention is all you need,” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30. Curran Associates, pp. 5998–6008.
In text: (Vaswani et al., 2017)
The publishers' records hold 6 of these titles in title case; the tool converted them to sentence case, as Harvard requires, and reported each change on its card, where one click keeps the original instead.
Five errors markers see most often, and what the tool does about each.
Every university publishes its own Harvard guide, and they differ in punctuation and in what goes in quotation marks. This page follows Cite Them Right; if your department's guide differs, the department's guide wins.
Cite Them Right asks for (Accessed: date) after every URL. It is the element people most often forget and the one a marker looks for.
Harvard names up to three authors in full in the text. Et al. begins at four.
Harvard uses and between authors, in the text and in the list. The ampersand belongs to APA.
The list gives Kuhn, T.S. (2012), with the parentheses directly after the initials. A comma there is an APA habit.
If your handbook names one of these instead, its page opens the generator with that style selected.
APA is the American cousin: an ampersand instead of and, et al. from three authors, no accessed dates for stable pages, and no publisher's city. Open the APA page.
Elsevier's Harvard variant, used by its journals, drops the parentheses around the year in the list and writes (Golder and Macy, 2011) in the text; it is on its own page. Open the Elsevier Harvard page.
Yes. Every style, every source type and every export is free, with no account and no daily allowance, because the formatting runs in your browser rather than on our servers. Your list is saved in this browser and never sent to us.
Cite Them Right, 12th edition (2022). The picker also carries Harvard variants published by individual universities; search the picker for your university's name if it has one.
The author's surname and the year in parentheses with a comma between them, and the page after another comma with p.: (Kuhn, 2012, p. The tool prints the in-text form under each reference; turn on the in-text switch above the list if it is hidden.
Paste the address and the tool reads the page's title, author, site name and date where the page declares them, then formats it. The Harvard form of a web page with an organisation as author and no date is: AI Writing Assistant (no date) Free AI writing tools: What each does and when to use it, AI Writing Assistant. Available at: https://www.aiwritingassistant.net/tools.html (Accessed: September 18, 2026). Check the author and date on the card — pages often leave them out, and the style has a rule for each case.
Yes. Your sources are stored as data, not as formatted text, so choosing another style in the picker re-formats the whole list at once — APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, or any of the 10,000 Citation Style Language styles the picker searches.
From the Cite Them Right, 12th edition, by Richard Pears and Graham Shields (Bloomsbury, 2022), published by no single body — Harvard is a family of author–date styles, and the version here follows Cite Them Right, the guide most UK universities adopt, as encoded in the open Citation Style Language style the tool uses. If your university publishes its own Harvard guide, it takes precedence over Cite Them Right where the two differ — usually in small matters of punctuation. Where your department's own guide differs on a detail, the department's guide is the one your marker reads.
Check the essay's grammar, tighten the wording, or summarise a source before you cite it. One plan covers every tool.
Each page opens the generator with that style already selected, shows what the tool prints for six real sources, and explains the style's rules. The picker above the list reaches more than 10,000 styles in all.
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