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HOW TO REFERENCE A HOUSE OF COMMONS/LORDS REPORT

 

In-text citation

 

In your own writing within brackets write ‘HC paper’ or ‘HL paper’ and in new brackets give the Parliamentary Session, then outside these brackets give the volume number. Give an in-text citation within brackets with ‘HC’ for House of Commons or ‘HL’ for House of Lords, then the date and page number if appropriate.

 

Example

Another important report (HL paper (2003-4) 123) addresses the issue of alternative medicine (HL 2005).

 

Reference

 

Write the name of the House as in your in-text citation then the date in brackets. Then write ‘Great Britain Parliament’ and give details of the committee if appropriate followed by a full stop. Give the title in italics and the report number followed by a full stop. Give the place of publication followed by a colon then the publisher. Finally, within brackets give the paper details, the number, and the Parliamentary Session if appropriate.

 

Example

House of Lords (2005) Great Britain Parliament Select Committee on Science and Technology. Complementary and Alternative Medicine 6th report of the Select Committee on Science and Technology. London: Stationery Office. (HL paper; 123; Session 2003-4)

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Based on Deane, M. (2006) Coventry University Harvard Reference Style Guide. Unpublished booklet. Coventry: Coventry University. Version 3.0.4. September 2016. Produced in collaboration with Ray Summers (Illustrations), edited by Catalina Neculai with the assistance of Lisa Ganobcsik- Williams and Erik Borg, and with input from the Coventry University Harvard Reference Style Working Party.

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