Harvard referencing format query - help, please

[Starfish83]

Good morning!

I'm currently writing my PhD thesis and am using the Harvard referencing system. For one particular quote, I have added emphasis in the form of italics and have acknowledged this at the end of the quote with "(italics added)". However, I've realised on re-reading that I need to emphasise another word but to make a different point, not linked to the other emphasis in italics. Can I use bold text for this word? And then add at the end of the quote "(italics and bold added)"?

I can't seem to find any information online or in my uni handbook to clarify, so some advice would be great.

Thank you in advance!

Could you add in the footnotes *[italics and bold added]

I wasn't aware you could use italics and bold for emphasis. Surely you could use the same quote twice or a shortened version of the quote for the second time and explain both your points.

So: "The cat ate the fish because he was hungry."

Becomes:

"The cat ate the fish because he was hungry" is an example of a full sentence. This particular section however, really emphasises that he was hungry thus displaying the motivation for killing the fish: "[...]Because he was hungry."

Random sentence but I hope it demonstrates what I mean?

Thanks so much, Plink - feel like I should have been able to work that one out for myself, but your post made it clear for me! 😀

No worries at all.

I don't think I was ever confident with Harvard referencing despite spending 4 years at uni and another post grad degree. I don't know anyone that is confident with it

I also remember that writing haze you get into... It's like being lost in a fog. A brain fog if you will haha. I suspect that's why you asked

You can use italics for emphasis in Harvard and the italics added thing is fine. The only worry I'd have with using Bold as well is that it is inconsistent. So you could either italicise both words or, as Plink suggests, better still explain what is so significant about the quote in the main text.