MHRA Style Guide

The MHRA Style Guide is an essential reference for scholars, students and editors in the Modern Humanities. MHRA style was originally codified for the Association's own journals and books, but it is now used much more widely. Many universities require theses and other written assignments to conform to MHRA style. The Guide gives guidance and clarity on such points as spelling and usage; names; abbreviations; punctuation; capitals; italics; dates, numbers, currency, and weights and measures; quotations and quotation marks; footnotes and endnotes; references, and so on.

Style Home Page. The home page for MHRA Style can now be found here.

Statement on Peer Review. The MHRA would like to express its gratitude to all colleagues who are willing to devote their time and effort to reviewing submissions to the Association’s journals and book series. We recognise that the demands of contemporary academia mean finding time and energy to undertake peer reviews can be challenging.

Peer review is integral to and highly valued by the MHRA, just as it can be a marker of esteem for individuals and institutions. Peer review diversifies the voices and perspectives we represent, helps develop relationships with our journals, and offers opportunities for reciprocal 'disciplinary citizenship’, as scholars write and review in constructive ways. The best way to find out how to publish great work is to help someone else do so.

The MHRA is happy for reviewers to declare that they have acted as reviewers for the Association (e.g. on a CV), provided that the details of the specific review undertaken are not revealed.