I think so… let me quote from the course manual…
In Level 2 OU courses you will often be referring to your course materials,
including the course texts, so handy abbreviations have been provided for
these materials.
Here are the abbreviations for A251:
Block 1, Block 2, etc.
CD1
HP
Here are examples of using these abbreviations in your text references:
(Block 1, p.18)
(HP, pp.54–55)
(CD1, Track 4)
Set readings from journal articles should be referred to in the same way as
material from outside the course.
Referencing material from outside the course
If you use ‘outside’ material for your essays, you need to use a slightly
more detailed format. A251 requires the use of what is called the ‘Harvard
system’. You give the reference in brackets at the end of the sentence it
refers to. The reference consists of the author’s last name, followed by the
date of publication and the page number. Here is an example:
‘The Aztecs tended to be extremely cruel in dealing with uprisings on the
fringes of their empire’ (Bloggs, 1972, p.81).
In the bibliography (this is the HP one above) it still appears as:
Scarre, C. (ed.) (2005) The Human Past, London, Thames and Hudson.
So in this course, in need to cite it as (HP) or (HP, p.34).
However if it were not the course book, it would be
(Scarre, 2005, p. 34).
Its kind of them to make it “handy” but a pain to have to implement it. I
loose marks for not using the correct citation, and as the citations are
included in the word count, I loose words too - maybe 20 citations in a 500
word essay builds up a little!
Also - the Harvard style they define bares only passing resemblance to
either of the two Harvard styles I implemented!
So what I would like is some key that I could say
… do the fixed variant
usual rules
This is probably a weird case, its just the one I need right now!
Julian.