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Q&A Citing Oracle documentations of Java

The general format for a reference citation in Harvard style is: Last name, First Initial. (Year published). Title. City: Publisher, Page(s). For a web site, this guide gives the following fo...

posted 7y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T07:27:32Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/31793
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T07:27:32Z (almost 5 years ago)
The general format for a reference citation in Harvard style is:

> Last name, First Initial. (Year published). Title. City: Publisher, Page(s).

For a web site, [this guide](http://www.citethisforme.com/harvard-referencing) gives the following format:

> Last name, First initial (Year published). Page title. [online] Website name. Available at: URL [Accessed Day Mo. Year].

If there is no author, you substitute the name of the site:

> Website name, (Year published). _Page title_. [online] Available at: URL [Accessed Day Mo. Year].

(This is different from other styles where you would use something like "\_\_\_\_" in place of an author or just omit it.)

For your example, then, the citation would be:

> Java™ Platform, Standard Edition 7 API Specification, (2017). _Interface Map\<K,V\>_. [online] Available at: [https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Map.html](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Map.html) [Accessed Dec 3, 2017].

I didn't find a clearly-authoritative source for Harvard Style; the site I used seems to be pretty popular.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2017-12-03T22:47:54Z (almost 7 years ago)
Original score: 3