The Harvard style is the most widely-used style of referencing around the world. Referencing in Harvard style is commonly accepted in academic publications, but still you are free to choose it for any kind of research. Harvard citation style guidelines given below will be of much value for your work. The information you will be presented is based on Style manual for authors, editors and printers, 6th ed. In this manual you may find more detailed citation style guidelines and concise recommendations as for preparing a paper for publication. What is more, a lot of Harvard citation style examples are available here.
 
According to the Harvard Reference Style requirements you may classify the sources of your information in two ways:

• in the text of your paper — citation provides some notes about the author and date of publication
• in a reference list — this is a list at the end of your work, it consists of all references you have used in the text and gives the full information about the sources you have referred to, or cited

Note 1. In text referencing:
 
Acknowledgement of the information sources may be of different types. They are as follows:
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IEEE is abbreviated from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. A set of rules worked out by the scientists gave way to IEEE Citation Style - one among many other ways to acknowledge the information cited or referred to.
 
Official papers on IEEE Style are Information for Authors : IEEE Transactions, Journals and Letters(2003), the Reference Guide: IEEE Style(1998) and Numeric Referencing(2004). They give detailed description of the style and provide a lot of IEEE Citation samples. The IEEE Citation Style guidelines given below follow the principles of the works cited, so if you want to save your time and get all the necessary information you’re welcome at our site!
 
Referencing in IEEE Style requires a number given to a citation, that is enclosed by square brackets. These are square brackets that distinguish IEEE Style among other citation styles. Citations are numbered in the order they appear in the text. Each citation corresponds to a numbered reference given at the end of the paper (in a reference list). The same number of the source is used for all subsequent references.
 
Note, that you should enclose each reference number in square brackets on the same line as the text, before any punctuation; make a space before the bracket.
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