Referencing – Rules, Queries, Harvard etc.

My mentor told me to put numbers in text instead of (name,date) and than give the complete reference in the reference list. Is this accepted version of Harvard style.
thanks

This is called Vancouver Style not the Harvard Ref. so do not add numbers. i made this mistake in my MBA and my marks were capped.

There is no 100% suggested answer of this question as it totally varies with respect to your selected topic and company. Based on our experience of mentoring various students, we always suggest student to use very limited direct quotes as huge number of direct quotes put bad image on RAP as it is conceived by marker’s of OBU that student did not do vast research and mainly rely on already provided information from various sources. The simple solution to avoid this aspect in your RAP is to reword all such information in your own words by keeping same original theme and then also provide reference as well with this information to acknowledge that you conceived ideas from someone else thoughts and at the same time plagiarism detection software will not highlight such own reworded stuff.

For question 1, can I do it like this:

[this is my graph]
(Data source: Appendix) <—-my referencing

then in the appendix section i include the extract of the financial statements and the full list of ratios for the company

Is this alright?

Thanks for replying.

So where do I mention the URL of where I got that financial statement? In the appendix(my excel spreadsheet), do I have to reference the URL of the financial statement?

How do I do that?

Thanks

@ngswr

Referencing for financial statements work like you need to refer the figures and paragraphs you are writing not graphs (Remember graphs are those for your ratios not the one such as inflation rates and other pictures and data from internet, you need to refer them). If you are stating:

Ratio X% increased to Y% because ABCD then refer this through either appendix number or direct to annual reports as:
(Annual Report 2011) or (Appendix 1, 2 or 3)

You can refer annual reports through list of references in appendices. Write website and links in list of references and refer it to appendices and refer appendices to research report.

Thank You.

Have you followed the alphabetical or Numeric referencing? Can we use mix of both, something like this:

In the text: (1-XYZ LTD, 2011)

In the list: (1- XYZ LTD (2011) Annual Report & Accounts, pp.21-23. [Online]. Available at: https://www.nbplc.com/investor_relations.html (Accessed 15 March 2014)

Please advise if you know.

Yeah I wasn’t satisfied with this approach. Thanks

Here is another one that could be used for referencing in the “References List”

https://www.harvardgenerator.com/references/website

didnt see the reply button so i hope u will get notified by this reply. Thanks

i really appreciate your help so much and i am currently doing the project on Pakistan Tobacco company and if u can tell me some more sources i will be really grateful because i am struggling to find any information about the company. Thanks again so so much

this is my result

Your business analysis is good. Your financial analysis needs more work. You do not explain the movements in the ratios. Look at the following examples taken from your work: “The Operating profit margin has also increased overall but there was a decrease in last year which indicates higher administration and selling expenses, this could be due to the expenses on the security and the energy deficiency in the country” – you must undertake sufficient research to know what caused this, not to guess the reasons. “The Profit before interest and tax has been increasing overall 7% to 11% because there is a decrease in the finance cost which is due to the repayment of loans financed by selling the assets in the previous year. ” – you must look wider than the financial statements to include the impact of wider economic events, industry actions and corporate strategy. Where you do bring in wider reasons you do not reference where you got this information from. Generally there is little referencing in the financial analysis section.

You need to reference your financial analysis. All sources should be referenced including the annual report and accounts. Please use Harvard referencing (AUTHOR, DATE). Look at the following incorrectly stated references taken from your RAP: (Annual, 2012) (Tobacco Control Laws) (Tribune) (Trading Economics) (Pakistan tobacco company) These are not isolated examples. More worrying is the manner in which you cite direct, or near direct quotes. You have many of these throughout your report but you appear to be trying to pass these quotes off as your own as there are no inverted commas around the cited text. I have interpreted this as very poor referencing in this instance, but this could be construed as plagiarism, which is a serious academic conduct offence. You should not cut and paste when you are writing: read around a topic and write up in your own words.

Thanks again really appreciate your help, one last question if u dont mind. Since i have to update the financial analysis with latest financials should i update the business analysis too, because i already passed in that as the examiner said my business analysis was good.

@randy yes webpage should be referenced

In text citation = (Bloomberg, 2014)
In the list = Bloomberg. 2014. CME Gave High-Frequency Traders Peek at Market, Lawsuit Claims. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-13/cme-gave-high-frequency-traders-peek-at-market-lawsuit-claims.html. [Accessed 14 April 14]