Harvard Email Reference Generator

Using this simple referencing tool you can create a Harvard Email Reference in a couple of clicks.

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* Required Fields

1. Author

Enter the Surname and Initials of the sender, speaker or author

You must enter the Author or the email

Author Surname or Company Name *

Author Initial(s)

2. Receiver *

Enter the name of the person or organisation that received the email

You must enter name of the person or organisation who received the email

3. Year of communication *

Enter the year the communication took place in YYYY format.

No date was entered. Harvard requires [no date] be entered if the Year of communication is not known. If you wish to use [no date] then scroll down and click on Create Reference again to create a reference without a communication date. Alternatively enter the year of communication in YYYY format.

4. Date of communication *

Enter the date the communication took place

You need to enter the sate the communication took place

Create Reference

Click the button below to generate your Harvard Email Reference. Don't worry, you can come back and edit the reference if you need to correct or add any information

Example Harvard References for Personal Communications

Example Email Reference

Hawkins, S. 2014. Email to Harry Smith, 26 January.

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