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Australian Harvard Referencing

Dictionary entries

For encyclopedia entries where there is an identifiable author for the entry, use the format for book sections.

For dictionary or encyclopedia entries where the entry has no identified author, use an in-text title citation (title in italics, but not the date of publication). No entry in the reference list is required.

Part of the sentence

The Macquarie dictionary (2009) defines it as ...

Information prominent (reference not part of the sentence)

... but only with dark chocolate (International encyclopaedia of chocolate 2012).