Leeds Harvard: Parliamentary bill
Reference examples
Title. Year. (House name abbreviated to HC or HL Bill number, parliamentary session). Place of publication: Publisher.
Example:
Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill. 2013. (HC Bill 7, 2013-14). London: The Stationery Office.
Online parliamentary bill
If you are referencing a bill you found online, this should be indicated in the reference.
Title. Year. (House name abbreviated to HC or HL Bill number, parliamentary session). [Online]. Place of publication: Publisher. [Date accessed]. Available from: URL
Example:
Asset Freezing (Compensation) Bill. 2018. (HC Bill 165, 2017-19). [Online]. London: The Stationery Office. [Accessed 15 May 2018]. Available from: https://0-www-publicinformationonline-com.wam.leeds.ac.uk/
Citation examples
Parliamentary bill
The full title of the bill and year of publication should be used in the citation.
Example:
(Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill, 2013)
Common issues
When you're referencing with Leeds Harvard you may come across issues with missing details, multiple authors, edited books, references to another author's work or online items, to name a few. Here are some tips on how to deal with some common issues when using Leeds Harvard.
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- Online items
- URL web addresses
- Multiple authors
- Editors
- Corporate author(s) or organisation(s)
- Locating publisher details
- Multiple publisher details
- Editions and reprints
- Missing details
- Multiple sources with different authors
- Sources written by the same author in the same year
- Sources with the same author in different years
- Two authors with the same surname in the same year
- The work of one author referred to by another
- Anonymising sources for confidentiality
- Identifying the authors’ family name (surname)