MHRA Style Citation Demonstration
Click cover to enlarge | According to the MHRA Style Guide, this item should be cited in a bibliography as follows: Hill, Alexandra Merley, review of Katherine Stone, Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature: Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity, in Modern Language Review, 114.1 (2019), pp. 167–69, doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.114.1.0167 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'. Hill, Alexandra Merley Step 2. This is regular MHRA style, so the name's followed by a comma. Hill, Alexandra Merley, Step 3. Now we add the title, in single inverted commas. Any single quotation marks already in the title must be converted to doubles. Hill, Alexandra Merley, review of Katherine Stone, Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature: Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity Step 4. We have to say where this comes from, so: Hill, Alexandra Merley, review of Katherine Stone, Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature: Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity, in Step 5. Next we identify where the article is to be found, using italics, not quotation marks, for the volume title. Hill, Alexandra Merley, review of Katherine Stone, Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature: Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity, in Modern Language Review, 114.1 Step 6. Since this is a journal, no need for place of publication or publisher, only the year. Hill, Alexandra Merley, review of Katherine Stone, Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature: Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity, in Modern Language Review, 114.1 (2019) Step 7. Now the pagination. And we use 'p.' or 'pp.' as appropriate. Journal articles used to omit 'pp.' in MHRA Style, but the Fourth Edition Guide (2024) removes this exception, so now page ranges in journals are treated just the same as in books. Number ranges are elided in the last two digits: thus '2234-2265' should be '2234-65', and '102-109' should be '102-09'. Hill, Alexandra Merley, review of Katherine Stone, Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature: Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity, in Modern Language Review, 114.1 (2019), pp. 167–69 Step 8. This contribution has a DOI, so the Fourth Edition Guide (2024) requires us to quote it, like so. Hill, Alexandra Merley, review of Katherine Stone, Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature: Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity, in Modern Language Review, 114.1 (2019), pp. 167–69, doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.114.1.0167 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 Alexandra Merley Hill, review of Katherine Stone, Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature: Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity, in Modern Language Review, 114.1 (2019), pp. 167–69, doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.114.1.0167, pp. 24-27. But in any subsequent notes, a heavily abbreviated form is used: 37 Compare Hill, p. 17. |