Harvard Referencing: Company information
Related links within this guide
- The in-text reference
The basics of using in-text references in Harvard. - The Reference List
The format for a Reference List in Harvard. - How to use quotes in Harvard
How to include short and long quotes in your work. - Secondary Sources
What to do if you want to reference a quote that someone else has referenced? - Useful Library resources
Basic format to reference company information
The basics of a Reference List entry for a company report:
- Author.
- Year.
- Report title (in italics).
- Date viewed.
- Website address or database provider
Example:
BHP Billiton 2017, BHP Billiton sustainability report for the year ended 30 June 2017, viewed 2 May 2018 <https://www.bhp.com/-/media/documents/investors/annual-reports/2017/bhpsustainabilityreport2017.pdf?>.
- The content of electronic material for companies changes quickly. Always include the date you accessed the material from the source referenced.
- The author is usually the database provider. The date is the year of the publication of the profile.
- In the case of a database that has financial data that is updated regularly use the current year.
- Use a descriptive title to describe data from specialised sources such as Datastream and Mint Global.
Referencing company information: Examples
| Material Type |
In-text example |
Reference List Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Company Report | (BHP 2017) |
BHP 2017, BHP sustainability report for the year ended 30 June 2017, viewed 20 May 2018, <https://www.bhp.com/-/media/documents/investors/annual-reports/2017/bhpsustainabilityreport2017.pdf?>. |
| (Telstra 2018) |
Telstra 2018, Telstra annual report 2018, viewed 25 August 2018, retrieved from Orbis database. |
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| Company Profile | (Marketline 2017) |
Marketline 2017, Tesla Motors Inc., company profile, viewed 15 May 2018, retrieved from Business Source Complete database. |
| Financial Data | (Datastream 2018) | Datastream 2018, S&P ASX200 daily index data 2016-2018, viewed 20 March 2018, retrieved from Datastream database. |
| Industry Report | (Ibisworld 2018) |
Ibisworld 2018, Employment placement and recruitment services in Australia: global industry report, viewed 7 March 2018, retrieved from IbisWorld database. |
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