MHRA Style Citation Demonstration
Click cover to enlarge | According to the MHRA Style Guide, this item should be cited in a bibliography as follows: Kellett, Rachel E., ‘Chapter 7 Battles in Daniel Von Dem Blühenden Tal’, in Kellett, Rachel E., Single Combat and Warfare in German Literature of the High Middle Ages: Stricker's Karl der Grosse and Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 72 (MHRA, 2008), pp. 164–99, doi:10.2307/j.ctt32b91c.10 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'. Kellett, Rachel E. Step 2. This is regular MHRA style, so the name's followed by a comma. Kellett, Rachel E., Step 3. Now we add the title, in single inverted commas. Any single quotation marks already in the title must be converted to doubles. Kellett, Rachel E., ‘Chapter 7 Battles in Daniel Von Dem Blühenden Tal’ Step 4. We have to say where this comes from, so: Kellett, Rachel E., ‘Chapter 7 Battles in Daniel Von Dem Blühenden Tal’, in Step 5. Next, the author(s) of the book, which come before the title because this is a monograph. Kellett, Rachel E., ‘Chapter 7 Battles in Daniel Von Dem Blühenden Tal’, in Kellett, Rachel E. Step 6. Now a comma, not a full stop: Kellett, Rachel E., ‘Chapter 7 Battles in Daniel Von Dem Blühenden Tal’, in Kellett, Rachel E., Step 7. Here we have the book's title, in italics, not quotation marks. Kellett, Rachel E., ‘Chapter 7 Battles in Daniel Von Dem Blühenden Tal’, in Kellett, Rachel E., Single Combat and Warfare in German Literature of the High Middle Ages: Stricker's Karl der Grosse and Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal 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. Kellett, Rachel E., ‘Chapter 7 Battles in Daniel Von Dem Blühenden Tal’, in Kellett, Rachel E., Single Combat and Warfare in German Literature of the High Middle Ages: Stricker's Karl der Grosse and Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 72 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. Kellett, Rachel E., ‘Chapter 7 Battles in Daniel Von Dem Blühenden Tal’, in Kellett, Rachel E., Single Combat and Warfare in German Literature of the High Middle Ages: Stricker's Karl der Grosse and Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 72 ( Step 10. Now a colon, a space, and the publisher's name. Abbreviating to 'MHRA' is fine here. Kellett, Rachel E., ‘Chapter 7 Battles in Daniel Von Dem Blühenden Tal’, in Kellett, Rachel E., Single Combat and Warfare in German Literature of the High Middle Ages: Stricker's Karl der Grosse and Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 72 (MHRA Step 11. Then the year of first publication, and we're done with the bracketed part. Kellett, Rachel E., ‘Chapter 7 Battles in Daniel Von Dem Blühenden Tal’, in Kellett, Rachel E., Single Combat and Warfare in German Literature of the High Middle Ages: Stricker's Karl der Grosse and Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 72 (MHRA, 2008) 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'. Kellett, Rachel E., ‘Chapter 7 Battles in Daniel Von Dem Blühenden Tal’, in Kellett, Rachel E., Single Combat and Warfare in German Literature of the High Middle Ages: Stricker's Karl der Grosse and Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 72 (MHRA, 2008), pp. 164–99 Step 13. This contribution has a DOI, so the Fourth Edition Guide (2024) requires us to quote it, like so. Kellett, Rachel E., ‘Chapter 7 Battles in Daniel Von Dem Blühenden Tal’, in Kellett, Rachel E., Single Combat and Warfare in German Literature of the High Middle Ages: Stricker's Karl der Grosse and Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 72 (MHRA, 2008), pp. 164–99, doi:10.2307/j.ctt32b91c.10 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 Rachel E. Kellett, ‘Chapter 7 Battles in Daniel Von Dem Blühenden Tal’, in Rachel E. Kellett, Single Combat and Warfare in German Literature of the High Middle Ages: Stricker's Karl der Grosse and Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 72 (MHRA, 2008), pp. 164–99, doi:10.2307/j.ctt32b91c.10, pp. 24-27. But in any subsequent notes, a heavily abbreviated form is used: 37 Compare Kellett, p. 17. |
