Leeds Harvard: House of Commons / Lords paper

Reference examples

Government department/committee/organisation. Year. Title. (House name abbreviated (ie HC or HL) series number, parliamentary session). Place of publication: Publisher.

Example:

National Audit Office. 2005. Returning failed asylum applicants. (HC 76, 2005-06). London: The Stationery Office.

Online House of Commons/Lords paper

If you are referencing a House of Commons or House of Lords paper you found online, this should be indicated in the reference.

Government department/committee/organisation. Year. Title. (House name abbreviated (ie HC or HL) series number, parliamentary session). [Online]. Place of publication: Publisher. [Date accessed]. Available from: URL

Example:

Security Industry Authority. 2018. Annual report and accounts, 2016/17. (HC 744, 2017-19). [Online]. London: The Stationery Office. [Accessed 15 May 2018]. Available from: https://0-www-publicinformationonline-com.wam.leeds.ac.uk/

Citation examples

Command paper or House of Commons/Lords paper

In the citation, always use the name of the Government organisation/department/comittee in place of that of an individual author. When the organisation name is not mentioned in the text, the ciation consists of the organisation's name and the year of publication in brackets.

Example:

According to a recent report, flu jabs are as important as travel vaccines (Department of Health, 2017).

If you have already named the organisation in the text, only the publication year needs to be mentioned in brackets.

Example:

A recent report by the Department of Health (2017) emphasised that flu jabs are as important as travel vaccines.

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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