The Harvard referencing style uses the author-date system for in-text citations, which means the author's surname and the year of publication in round brackets are placed within the text. If there is no discernible author, the title and date are used.
EXAMPLE: Basic in-text citation
There are five strategies to implement Diversity Management in companies (Cox, 2001).
In-text references have two formats: parenthetical and narrative. In parenthetical citations, the author's name and publication date appear in parentheses. When citing in-text, provide the author's surname and date of publication in brackets right after the borrowed information or at the end of the sentence.
If you have already mentioned the author's name in the text, you only need to place the date of publication in brackets directly after where the author's surname is mentioned. When a parenthetical citation is at the end of a sentence, place the period or other end punctuation after the closing parentheses.
EXAMPLE: Book with one author (parenthetical citation)
All of those factors contribute to climate change (See, 2012).
EXAMPLE: Book with editor or multiple authors (parenthetical citation)
.. as claimed by the authors (Raab et al., 2015).
In narrative citations, the name and publication date is incorporated into the text as part of the sentence. The author appears in running text and the date appears in parentheses immediately after the author's name:
EXAMPLE: Book with two authors (narrative citation)
Auerbach and Kotlikoff (1998) explain that a higher level of labor productivity means more output per person.
