MHRA Style Citation Demonstration
According to the MHRA Style Guide, this item should be cited in a bibliography as follows: Bull, Anna Cento, ‘From the Centrality of the Working Class to its Demise: The Case of Bagnoli, Naples’, in Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s, ed. by Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio, Italian Perspectives, 12 (Legenda, 2006), pp. 227–40, doi: 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'. Bull, Anna Cento Step 2. This is regular MHRA style, so the name's followed by a comma. Bull, Anna Cento, Step 3. Now we add the title, in single inverted commas. Any single quotation marks already in the title must be converted to doubles. Bull, Anna Cento, ‘From the Centrality of the Working Class to its Demise: The Case of Bagnoli, Naples’ Step 4. We have to say where this comes from, so: Bull, Anna Cento, ‘From the Centrality of the Working Class to its Demise: The Case of Bagnoli, Naples’, in Step 5. Next we identify where the article is to be found, using italics, not quotation marks, for the volume title. Bull, Anna Cento, ‘From the Centrality of the Working Class to its Demise: The Case of Bagnoli, Naples’, in Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s Step 6. After the title come any editors or translators. It's 'ed. by', not 'ed by', because although 'ed.' abbreviates 'edited', we regard the 'd' as the second letter of 'edited', not the last: so the abbreviation doesn't contain the last letter, and thus must have a full stop '.' Bull, Anna Cento, ‘From the Centrality of the Working Class to its Demise: The Case of Bagnoli, Naples’, in Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s, ed. by Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio Step 7. 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. Bull, Anna Cento, ‘From the Centrality of the Working Class to its Demise: The Case of Bagnoli, Naples’, in Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s, ed. by Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio, Italian Perspectives, 12 Step 8. 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. Bull, Anna Cento, ‘From the Centrality of the Working Class to its Demise: The Case of Bagnoli, Naples’, in Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s, ed. by Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio, Italian Perspectives, 12 ( Step 9. Now a colon, a space, and the publisher's name. Here that's Legenda because this is the imprint name under which the book is published, even though Legenda is not strictly speaking a company. To decide these things, one must look at the exact wording of the preliminary pages. Our preference is for Legenda books to be cited as 'Legenda', and we word our preliminaries with that aim. Bull, Anna Cento, ‘From the Centrality of the Working Class to its Demise: The Case of Bagnoli, Naples’, in Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s, ed. by Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio, Italian Perspectives, 12 (Legenda Step 10. Then the year of first publication, and we're done with the bracketed part. Bull, Anna Cento, ‘From the Centrality of the Working Class to its Demise: The Case of Bagnoli, Naples’, in Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s, ed. by Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio, Italian Perspectives, 12 (Legenda, 2006) Step 11. 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'. Bull, Anna Cento, ‘From the Centrality of the Working Class to its Demise: The Case of Bagnoli, Naples’, in Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s, ed. by Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio, Italian Perspectives, 12 (Legenda, 2006), pp. 227–40 Step 12. This contribution has a DOI, so the Fourth Edition Guide (2024) requires us to quote it, like so. Bull, Anna Cento, ‘From the Centrality of the Working Class to its Demise: The Case of Bagnoli, Naples’, in Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s, ed. by Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio, Italian Perspectives, 12 (Legenda, 2006), pp. 227–40, doi: 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 Anna Cento Bull, ‘From the Centrality of the Working Class to its Demise: The Case of Bagnoli, Naples’, in Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s, ed. by Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio, Italian Perspectives, 12 (Legenda, 2006), pp. 227–40, doi:, pp. 24-27. But in any subsequent notes, a heavily abbreviated form is used: 37 Compare Bull, p. 17. |