How to cite a web page in Harvard
Short answer
How do you cite a web page in Harvard?
You need author or organisation, year, page title, site name, url, date accessed. The reference list entry looks like this:
Agency, Q. A. (2025) Academic integrity charter for uk higher education. Available at: https://www.qaa.ac.uk/academic-integrity (Accessed: 14 August 2026).
The matching in-text citation is (Agency, 2025).
Gather the details
You need: Author or organisation, Year, Page title, Site name, URL, Date accessed. Take them from the source itself, not from a database record, which is often incomplete.
Order the elements
Harvard is an author–date style, so the author and year come first. Follow the pattern in the example below exactly, including its punctuation.
Add the in-text citation
Every reference needs a matching in-text citation. In Harvard that is (Agency, 2025). Missing or mismatched in-text citations are penalised more often than formatting slips.
Check against your own guide
Institutional variants exist, particularly in Harvard. Where your department's published guide differs from any generator, the department's guide wins.
What you need
Details to collect
- Author or organisation
- Year
- Page title
- Site name
- URL
- Date accessed
Watch out
Mistakes this pairing invites
- Concluding there is no date without checking the page source or copyright line.
- Using the site name as the author when a named author is present.
- Omitting the access date in styles that require it, such as Harvard and MLA.
- There is no single Harvard authority — always use your institution's published guide.
- Cite Them Right (the most common UK variant) uses single quotation marks around article titles.
Compare
The same web page in all eight styles
Harvard
This pageAgency, Q. A. (2025) Academic integrity charter for uk higher education. Available at: https://www.qaa.ac.uk/academic-integrity (Accessed: 14 August 2026).
Agency, Q. A. (2025). Academic integrity charter for uk higher education. QAA. https://www.qaa.ac.uk/academic-integrity
Agency, Quality Assurance. "Academic Integrity Charter for Uk Higher Education." QAA, 2025, https://www.qaa.ac.uk/academic-integrity. Accessed 14 August 2026.
Agency, Quality Assurance. "Academic Integrity Charter for Uk Higher Education." QAA. 2025. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://www.qaa.ac.uk/academic-integrity.
Agency QA. Academic integrity charter for uk higher education [Internet]. QAA; 2025 [cited 14 August 2026]. Available from: https://www.qaa.ac.uk/academic-integrity
Quality Assurance Agency, 'Academic Integrity Charter for Uk Higher Education' (QAA, 2025) <https://www.qaa.ac.uk/academic-integrity> accessed 14 August 2026
Q. A. Agency, "Academic integrity charter for uk higher education," QAA, 2025. Accessed: August 14, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.qaa.ac.uk/academic-integrity
Agency QA. Academic integrity charter for uk higher education. QAA. Published 2025. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://www.qaa.ac.uk/academic-integrity
Frequently asked questions
- How do you cite a web page in Harvard?
- Agency, Q. A. (2025) Academic integrity charter for uk higher education. Available at: https://www.qaa.ac.uk/academic-integrity (Accessed: 14 August 2026). — that is the reference list entry. The matching in-text citation is (Agency, 2025). You need author or organisation, year, page title, site name, url, date accessed.
- What details do I need to cite a web page?
- Author or organisation, Year, Page title, Site name, URL, Date accessed. If a detail is genuinely unavailable, most styles have a defined substitute — for example 'n.d.' or 'no date' where no publication year exists — rather than simply omitting the element.
- What is the in-text citation for a web page in Harvard?
- (Agency, 2025). It appears in parentheses at the point the source is used, not only at the end of the paragraph.