Harvard reference guide/generator?

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ivrytwr3

ivrytwr3

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Hey all,

As some of you may or may not know i am currently doing an OU course and it's going ok at the minute (first time i have attempted higher learning!)

Bear with me here, to ensure we are on the right track our tutor has given us milestones each month; 1x 1000/2000 word essay per month. At the end of the four month we put it all together for submission.

I am happy how to reference with Harvard, but my essay runs to approx 7000 words and although i have produced a ToC, the layout still looks like stuff i produced for GCSE never mind academia!

Is there a guide/generator that deals with the layout and not just the referencing (there are loads of those). Or can anyone send me a paper they have produced i can use as a template?!

Ta!
 
There are many guides on the internet as to Harvard referencing, however if you use MS Word it has the capability to do this for you using the the referencing tools.
 
Use Latex, concentrate on the content and let latex give you professional output. With bibtex you can just choose whatever referencing style you want.
 
I've always just used Word's in built referencing.

Of course referencing is always where I get the lowest marks on my assignments so I may not be the best person to seek advice from...
 
I use Neils toolbox, but it's not the referencing that's the issue, it's the actual layout of the paper i want to get right.

(the paper and reference list are written, i just need to get the look/layout of the paper into the correct layout instead of blocks of text in MS Word!! I am trying to get it to look like an academic paper).

Latex looks interesting - never seen that before. Is it simple to use?
 
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ivrytwr3 said:
I use Neils toolbox, but it's not the referencing that's the issue, it's the actual layout of the paper i want to get right.

(the paper and reference list are written, i just need to get the look/layout of the paper into the correct layout instead of blocks of test in MS Word!!).
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I use the arrowed bullet points but, as my course is a science they are lenient towards our layouts.
 
As much as I hate Microsoft, Word does all this for you.

You can set headings etc that auto creates your table of contents, it also can manage all your referencing and bibliography for you (you can set it to Harvard). Word has so many features to help structure, organise and present with layout etc that people just don't know about and when they do, they don't use.
 
Uni recommend refworks for referencing. I quite like the one built into Word, and if you need to you create your own XML schema to change the reference style if you need (some universities have their own adapted versions of Harvard etc.).

For layout, I just spend ages using templates and my own adjustments to get Word to look perfect.

Some of the true nerds (and our lecturers) like to use LaTeX... but I've never tried.
 
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