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APA 7th and Harvard are both author-date referencing systems — you name the author and year in the text and list full details at the end — but they are not the same kind of thing.
Read article →Referencing in a university assignment means showing where your information came from, in two places: in the text itself and in a reference list at the end.
Read article →APA 7th referencing has two halves that must always match: a short in-text citation with the author and year, and a full entry in an alphabetical reference list at the end.
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