harvard-mdxlisted

# Harvard referencing — Middlesex standard ## The requirements - **Minimum five high-quality journal articles** — count them, do not estimate - Plus contemporary research: Dubai Airports releases, ICAO/IATA/ACI, quality press - **Every journal article carries a DOI** - Reference list in **alphabetical order** by author surname - Every in-text citation appears in the list; every list entry is cited in text - The brief permits **Harvard or APA**. This project uses **Harvard** throughout. Mixing the two is a visible defect under rubric item 8 Five journals is a **floor**. A report of this weight with exactly five reads as minimum compliance; eight to twelve reads as research. Track the count in `03-References/references.md` continuously — it is far easier to hold than to retrofit. ## In-text citations | Situation | Form | |---|---| | One author | (Stevenson, 2021) | | Two authors | (Womack and Jones, 2003) | | Three or more | (Parasuraman *et al.*, 1988) | | Author as part of the sentence | Deming (1986) argues that… | | Direct quotation | (Deming, 1986, p. 88) — page number required | | Organisation as author | (Dubai Airports, 2026) | | Multiple sources, one point | (ACI, 2025; IATA, 2024) — alphabetical, semicolon-separated | | Same author, same year | (Dubai Airports, 2026a), (Dubai Airports, 2026b) | | Secondary citation | Deming (1986), cited in Oakland (2014) — *avoid; find the original* | Page numbers are required for direct quotations and strongly advised for sp