MHRA Style Citation Demonstration
Click cover to enlarge | According to the MHRA Style Guide, this item should be cited in a bibliography as follows: McIntyre, Hannah, and Hayley O'Kell (eds), Echo (= MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 15 (2021)) <https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/wph-15> [accessed 14 October 2024] 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. The entry begins with the author(s) or editor(s) of the volume, with the first name inverted into Surname, Forename. This is because a Bibliography is a list in surname order, so we need a surname up front. McIntyre, Hannah, and Hayley O'Kell Step 2. If somebody has a role other than that of author, it goes next, in brackets. One editor becomes '(ed.)', two or more '(eds)'. (Remember: 'ed.' stands for 'editor', not 'edited', so the full stop must be used, because 'd' is not its last letter.) McIntyre, Hannah, and Hayley O'Kell (eds) Step 3. Now a comma, not a full stop: McIntyre, Hannah, and Hayley O'Kell (eds), Step 4. This is a themed and titled journal issue, so we give that title here, just as if it were a book. McIntyre, Hannah, and Hayley O'Kell (eds), Echo Step 5. We gave this a title as if it were a book, but we need to give the equivalent journal citation as well: note the '=' sign. McIntyre, Hannah, and Hayley O'Kell (eds), Echo (= MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 15 (2021)) Step 6. This is an electronic publication, so we give the URL. Note the angle brackets! McIntyre, Hannah, and Hayley O'Kell (eds), Echo (= MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 15 (2021)) <https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/wph-15> Step 7. Electronic publications cited by URL rather than DOI must give an access date. For this demonstration, it's today. Note the format, Day Month Year, with the Month spelled out in full. McIntyre, Hannah, and Hayley O'Kell (eds), Echo (= MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 15 (2021)) <https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/wph-15> [accessed 14 October 2024] 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:
Suppose we want to cite a passage on pages 24 to 27: 34 See Echo, ed. by Hannah McIntyre and Hayley O'Kell (= MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 15 (2021)) <https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/wph-15> [accessed 14 October 2024], pp. 24-27. But in any subsequent notes, a heavily abbreviated form is used: 37 Compare McIntyre and O'Kell, p. 17. |