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Harvard referencing and policy documents
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I co-authored a Harvard referencing guide for my department which was later picked up by the library :-) We have it as per your second example but I'm not in the same jurisdiction as you so maybe your uni is different. tbh I find the Anglia Ruskin Harvard Ref guide comprehensive; it pretty much has everything you could ever want to know Harvard-wise! Have a look at page 18 and page 21 onwards of this guide.

http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/files/Harvard_referencing_2011.pdf

edit: sorry, just looked at your examples again and while we do have per No. 2, it's not exactly the same - we finish with the city and where it was published

PHD finally
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Terrific news Dr Naturalme, I'm delighted for you :-)(gift)

Contact Journal Editors
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Interesting question Delta - I suspect (would love to be proved wrong) that it is a question of trawling through them one by one. Have a look at the publishers' websites rather than individual journals as at least that way you can see a list of journals - Sage, Taylor & Francis etc etc.

pm'd you as well:-)

Article request
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you can stop grovelling; it's on its way ;-)

Paper Request
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pm an email address and I will send it on

Thesis font
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1960s child :$, birthday today, I think I am 'officially' middle-aged :-(x100000000000000000000000000000000000

Thesis font
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imo I would go with Times New Roman. I know things are changing but 'in general', tmr is the default academic font. The majority (I won't say all in case somebody contradicts me) of journals are in Times. In my uni, the submission guidelines, along with my own department's guidelines stipulated Times.

A specific situation
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of course, despite the fact that I don't like your new funny headgear;-)

What would you do?
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thanks guys:-)

Right, so I phoned, asked to speak to 'Alice', explained the situ to her and sure enough it was meant for her. She assures me she is printing off my CV and cover letter now!

Just found out a job I applied for but didn't get shortlisted for had over 150 applications, nearly all of whom had PhDs - the job didn't require anything higher than a primary degree:-(

It's tough out there folks

What would you do?
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Haven't asked a question in a while so today's the day!

I just emailed an application for a job and received a reply shortly afterwards - great, or so I thought. The reply (emailed only to me) reads "if you could print this Alice" (my name is not Alice or anything like Alice). My thoughts are that the person meant to send my application to an admin assistant, not reply to me. I am afraid that when they are compiling their short list that I won't be considered given that 'Alice' didn't print my cover letter and CV as she wasn't sent them!!!!!

Should I contact the company?:-(

Funding question - at end of PhD
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It sounds to me like your uni is quite efficient, if that's not a contradiction in terms! A pro-rata agreement probably is the fairest. If they really insist on getting the money back try and enter into an agreement with them how to repay it. If they are pushing you for details of your new employment it does sounds like they are intent on getting their money back.

In my situ, I submitted the month of my final stipend although I know of somebody who submitted early but still was paid 'til the end, no questions asked. As far as we knew, our monies had been drawn down at the start of our three years (almost in a locked safe somewhere) so maybe that was the difference?

Article request
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It's still in press but I managed to get it; pm an email address and I'll send it on:-)

format errors in thesis- what will happen?
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Quote From chippy:

Its no biggy. I had a few formatting issues like this. 

In particular, my wife, who proofread my entire PhD the day before my submission, added a subclause to my last sentence by way of encouragement. Unfortunately I was so tired by the point l got up to my conclusion at 5.30 in the morning on the day of my submission I missed her little addition.

Anyway my examiners had a great laugh at my viva that with the last 3 words of my thesis I had told them I loved them. They told me to fix my formatting errors and also consider deleting my final sentence but not to spend more than an hour on any corrections. It was my mistakes that broke the ice and set me up for a great viva.

They are more interested in your argument than how pleasing it looks on the page.

Good luck.


That's hilarious Chippy - sure it made for a very interesting viva;-) Considering they passed you with such tiny corrections you probably did love them!!

Paper request
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they're on the way:-)

I passed my viva! :)
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yoohoo Dr. Jenni, many congratuations (up)