A highly respected source of evidence for health professionals, the Cochrane Library maintains a database of systematic reviews. If you wish to reference one of these, Cite Them Right offers the following Harvard template:
Systematic reviews (Harvard)
Citation order:
- Author (surname followed by initials)
- Year of publication (in round brackets)
- Title and any subtitle (in single quotation marks)
- Database name (in italics)
- Issue number
- Article number (CD ...)
- and if accessed online: Available at: DOI or URL (Accessed: date)
Examples
- In-text citation : Following a systematic review (Pasquali et al., 2018) ...
- Reference list : Pasquali, S., Hadjinicolaou, A.V., Chiarion Sileni, V., Rossi, C.R. and Mocellin, S. (2018) ‘Systemic treatments for metastatic cutaneous melanoma’, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2, CD011123. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD011123.pub2.
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