Leeds Harvard: Congress hearing (US)
Reference examples
US House. Committee. Year. Title. Hearing, date. Place of Publication: Publisher.
Example:
US House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. 1995. Child care and child welfare. Hearing, 3 February. Washington: Government Printing Office.
Citation examples
Congress hearing (US)
US House,committee name, year.
Example:
(US House, Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, 1995).
When to include page numbers
You should include page numbers in your citation if you quote directly from the text, paraphrase specific ideas or explanations, or use an image, diagram, table, etc. from a source.
Example:
"It was emphasised that citations in a text should be consistent" (Jones, 2017, p.24).
When referencing a single page, you should use p. For a range of pages, use pp.
Example:
p.7 or pp.20-29.
If the page numbers are in Roman numerals, do not include p. before them.
Example:
(Amis, 1958, iv)
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.
Skip straight to the issue that affects you:
- 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)