Harvard Referencer

[tony-inpo]

Hello all:

This is an application allows the user to create Harvard References easily.

It's pretty specific so I'm not sure if many of you will have need to use it but if anyone could trial it for me that would be great.

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[FlibbyFlobby]

Where were you when I was doing my degree? :p

An excellent application for anyone at university, great job! :)

[tony-inpo]

Thanks ziadoz - I wish I'd written it last year so I could have actually used it :p

[HammyJ]

Looks like a quality app mate. Should really help with assignments etc

[virgo89]

Sweet this is going to be good for my Chem formal lab report :)

[User6060]

You should add different styles like APA and MLA (Y) good work though.

[funkymunky]

You my friend are awesome :)

This is going to come in extremely handy on my degree

Thank you

[NeoXY]

Yeah, APA, MLA + Chicago would be amazing (Y)

[Captain_Wang]

Very, very useful this time of year thank you very much indeed.

[Angel Blue01]

Hey I was going to write that! :p

[DomZ]

Hey I was going to write that! :p

You could write one that works well under linux if you want ;) I can't get this one to run under mono or wine :(

[ultimate99]

Very nice!

and yes, different styles like APA and MLA would be great if added!!!

[Slimy]

I don't understand, what does this app do that MS Word doesn't?

[tony-inpo]

I don't understand, what does this app do that MS Word doesn't?

Can Word create reference lists? I know they have templates which you can edit, but I wasn't aware that it allows the user to input data which is assembled into properly formatted reference lists. If it can please show me as it would save me the trouble of trying to iron out all the bugs :p (joking ha ha).

You should add different styles like APA and MLA (Y) good work though.

I'll look into it, I've never heard of either so I'll do some research and get cracking on it later. Any good sites you guys know of would be useful. (Y)

You could write one that works well under linux if you want ;) I can't get this one to run under mono or wine :(

What version of the .net framework does mono support? The Harvard Referencer does use bits of 2 so perhaps it's not properly supported? I might, maybe one day rewrite it in Java which would bypass that problem.

Thanks for the positive feedback guys, if you like it, could you leave a comment on my blog - it would be nice to have some positive comments about the Harvard Referencer on there. :cool:

Thanks guys and any other suggestions either email me or post on here/my blog.

[Angel Blue01]

You could write one that works well under linux if you want ;) I can't get this one to run under mono or wine :(

Hey, now that's an idea! If you don't mind I'll write it in Java, since that the only non .NET language I know, good luck porting to Mono though, I got lost reading the tutorials.

In the US MLA and Chicago-Turabian are the most common, so that would be really nice. :D

Does anyone mind command line apps? :p

[tony-inpo]

Does anyone mind command line apps? :p

If you do want to port it you'll have to come up with a way of preserving the formatting, i.e. having text, italic text, text, which I presume would be impossible on the command line.

You'll have to do it with a GUI if at all. Again to create the formatting you'll need to use something like a JTextField, but I'm not sure if you can do the alternative formatting in one of those. :/

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Sort your spelling out. There is no such word as "multipul" - it's "multiple". I am not gonna download your app, but I suggest that (based upon posting a screenshot with such an error) you check every label, dialogue and alert.

[Slimy]

Can Word create reference lists? I know they have templates which you can edit, but I wasn't aware that it allows the user to input data which is assembled into properly formatted reference lists. If it can please show me as it would save me the trouble of trying to iron out all the bugs :p (joking ha ha).

Well I'm currently using Word 2007 (but I know 2003 had the option as well):

References > Manage Sources

[JonathanVP]

awesome app! MLA would be great since I gotta write a report that has MLA references.

[tony-inpo]

Sort your spelling out. There is no such word as "multipul" - it's "multiple". I am not gonna download your app, but I suggest that (based upon posting a screenshot with such an error) you check every label, dialogue and alert.

Right thanks for that. I try very hard to get spelling right but it's something I really struggle with and so "multipul" must have slipped through my screening.

While we're on the subject - "dialogue" means a conversation between two people - you meant to say "dialog".

To Slimy:

Thanks for pointing that out, I've never noticed that before. Anyone who wants the APA style please follow Slimy's advice.

[virgo89]

MLA and APA please :)

[tony-inpo]

MLA and APA please :)

I'm thinking about adding both of them, although I'll probably just make different programs for each style, although as Slimy has said Word 2003/2007 does have these capabilities already.

[+InsaneNutter MVC]

Just amazing... I started uni this sept and totally hate referencing already lol.

I have spent hours doing references for one of my assignments, this it?s going to save me a lot of time on future assignments:D:D thanks

[Long]

If you want APA, Word 2007 has it pretty much covered. It however does not do Harvard.

[tony-inpo]

If you want APA, Word 2007 has it pretty much covered. It however does not do Harvard.

I wonder why it doesn't do Harvard. APA is the standard for America as far as I understand so I presume they've covered that first.