The differences between APA and Harvard Referencing

Students encounter challenges when doing assignments that require different referencing styles. APA and Harvard referencing are two of the most popular referencing methods. They might appear similar but are different in several ways. Listed below are their key differences: 

 | Differences  | APA  | Harvard

| The type of academic work cited  | Primarily used to cite academic work related to education, behavioral and social science. | Mainly used for academic work related to science.
 
| List of references  | The list of references is named ‘References’  | The list of references is named ‘Reference List’

 | In-text citation of  more than one author  | To cite the work of one author, the last name of the author with the publication year is inserted. If the source has two authors, link the names with an ampersand (&) followed by the publication year. However, if the source is by more than three authors, cite only the first author followed by the word ‘et al.’ and year. | When a work of 2 to 3 authors is cited, the names appear in the same order as that of reference. The word “and” is used instead of an ampersand (&). If the work has 4 or more authors, the surname of the first author is cited along with the et al.

 | Header  | In APA 7, only the page number is inserted on the top right corner of each page  | The page number and title of the paper are inserted in the top right corner of each page.

| Title Page | The paper title is Capitalized, boldened and Centered, followed by the Name of Student, and date | The title of the paper is entered in capital letters, followed by the student’s Name, Code + Course Name, Professor’s Name, University Name, City and State and Date. All these are centered.