According to the MHRA Style Guide, this item should be cited in a bibliography as follows:

Percival, Melissa, ‘Bibliography and Index’, in Percival, Melissa, The Appearance of Character: Physiognomy and Facial Expression in Eighteenth-Century France, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 47 (MHRA, 1999), pp. 193–218, doi:10.59860/td.c48abd4

This is how standard MHRA style would look. Some of its book series (notably Legenda) allow an alternative citation system called 'author-date', but please talk to your editor before using it. (To see the demonstration for author-date, follow this link.)

Let's take this bibliography entry one step at a time:

Step 1. We start with the name(s) of the author(s) of the article, inverting the first name into the form 'Forename, Surname'.

Percival, Melissa

Step 2. This is regular MHRA style, so the name's followed by a comma.

Percival, Melissa,

Step 3. Now we add the title, in single inverted commas. Any single quotation marks already in the title must be converted to doubles.

Percival, Melissa, ‘Bibliography and Index’

Step 4. We have to say where this comes from, so:

Percival, Melissa, ‘Bibliography and Index’, in

Step 5. Next, the author(s) of the book, which come before the title because this is a monograph.

Percival, Melissa, ‘Bibliography and Index’, in Percival, Melissa

Step 6. Now a comma, not a full stop:

Percival, Melissa, ‘Bibliography and Index’, in Percival, Melissa,

Step 7. Here we have the book's title, in italics, not quotation marks.

Percival, Melissa, ‘Bibliography and Index’, in Percival, Melissa, The Appearance of Character: Physiognomy and Facial Expression in Eighteenth-Century France

Step 8. This book belongs to a series, so we'll name that. If the series is numbered, we give the number, too. No italics, no quotation marks in the series name.

Percival, Melissa, ‘Bibliography and Index’, in Percival, Melissa, The Appearance of Character: Physiognomy and Facial Expression in Eighteenth-Century France, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 47

Step 9. Since this is a book, not a journal issue, we have to identify its source, in round brackets. Until 2024, MHRA style required a place of publication - for example, New York or Oxford. This is no longer given except in special circumstances.

Percival, Melissa, ‘Bibliography and Index’, in Percival, Melissa, The Appearance of Character: Physiognomy and Facial Expression in Eighteenth-Century France, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 47 (

Step 10. Now a colon, a space, and the publisher's name. Abbreviating to 'MHRA' is fine here.

Percival, Melissa, ‘Bibliography and Index’, in Percival, Melissa, The Appearance of Character: Physiognomy and Facial Expression in Eighteenth-Century France, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 47 (MHRA

Step 11. Then the year of first publication, and we're done with the bracketed part.

Percival, Melissa, ‘Bibliography and Index’, in Percival, Melissa, The Appearance of Character: Physiognomy and Facial Expression in Eighteenth-Century France, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 47 (MHRA, 1999)

Step 12. Now the pagination. And we use 'p.' or 'pp.' as appropriate. Number ranges are elided in the last two digits: thus '2234-2265' should be '2234-65', and '102-109' should be '102-09'.

Percival, Melissa, ‘Bibliography and Index’, in Percival, Melissa, The Appearance of Character: Physiognomy and Facial Expression in Eighteenth-Century France, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 47 (MHRA, 1999), pp. 193–218

Step 13. This contribution has a DOI, so the Fourth Edition Guide (2024) requires us to quote it, like so.

Percival, Melissa, ‘Bibliography and Index’, in Percival, Melissa, The Appearance of Character: Physiognomy and Facial Expression in Eighteenth-Century France, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 47 (MHRA, 1999), pp. 193–218, doi:10.59860/td.c48abd4

And that's the finished bibliography entry. Note that there's no final full stop.

So how about citations in footnotes or endnotes?

In standard MHRA style, the first time the work is cited in a note, it should be cited in full. This looks very like a Bibliography entry, but:

• The author's name doesn't always come first: only for monographs. For collections and editions, the title comes first.
• Even if the author's name does come first, it's back to being the right way round, so it's Forename Surname, not Surname, Forename;
• Unlike Bibliography entries, notes are punctuated as sentences, and usually end in full stops.

Suppose we want to cite a passage on pages 24 to 27:

³⁴ See Melissa Percival, ‘Bibliography and Index’, in Melissa Percival, The Appearance of Character: Physiognomy and Facial Expression in Eighteenth-Century France, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 47 (MHRA, 1999), pp. 193–218, doi:10.59860/td.c48abd4, pp. 24-27.

But in any subsequent notes, a heavily abbreviated form is used:

³⁷ Compare Percival, p. 17.