Harvard format

English

Etymology

So named because Harvard University was a place where its use was common, at a time when today's generic names for referencing systems (author-date and author-number) hadn't yet acquired any degree of establishment.

Noun

Harvard format (uncountable)

1. The author-date method of parenthetical referencing, one of several standard formats for citing information from any source bibliographically.

   Hypernyms: referencing; format; style; method