MHRA Style Citation Demonstration
Click cover to enlarge | According to the MHRA Style Guide, this item should be cited in a bibliography as follows: Packham, Jimmy, review of Franz J. Potter, Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830, in Modern Language Review, 118.4 (2023), 613–14 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'. Packham, Jimmy Step 2. This is regular MHRA style, so the name's followed by a comma. Packham, Jimmy, Step 3. Now we add the title, in single inverted commas. Any single quotation marks already in the title must be converted to doubles. Packham, Jimmy, review of Franz J. Potter, Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830 Step 4. We have to say where this comes from, so: Packham, Jimmy, review of Franz J. Potter, Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830, in Step 5. Next we identify where the article is to be found, using italics, not quotation marks, for the volume title. Packham, Jimmy, review of Franz J. Potter, Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830, in Modern Language Review, 118.4 Step 6. Since this is a journal, no need for place of publication or publisher, only the year. Packham, Jimmy, review of Franz J. Potter, Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830, in Modern Language Review, 118.4 (2023) Step 7. Now the pagination. This is a journal, so we don't use 'p.' or 'pp.'. Number ranges are elided in the last two digits: thus '2234-2265' should be '2234-65', and '102-109' should be '102-09'. Packham, Jimmy, review of Franz J. Potter, Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830, in Modern Language Review, 118.4 (2023), 613–14 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 Jimmy Packham, review of Franz J. Potter, Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830, in Modern Language Review, 118.4 (2023), 613–14, pp. 24-27. But in any subsequent notes, a heavily abbreviated form is used: 37 Compare Packham, p. 17. |