MHRA Style Citation Demonstration
Click cover to enlarge | According to the MHRA Style Guide, this item should be cited in a bibliography as follows: Dodo, Emily Di, and Rachel Hayes (eds), Voyages (= MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 18 (2024)) <https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/wph-18> [accessed 7 April 2025] 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. Dodo, Emily Di, and Rachel Hayes 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.) Dodo, Emily Di, and Rachel Hayes (eds) Step 3. Now a comma, not a full stop: Dodo, Emily Di, and Rachel Hayes (eds), Step 4. This is a themed and titled journal issue, so we give that title here, just as if it were a book. Dodo, Emily Di, and Rachel Hayes (eds), Voyages 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. Dodo, Emily Di, and Rachel Hayes (eds), Voyages (= MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 18 (2024)) Step 6. This is an electronic publication, so we give the URL. Note the angle brackets! Dodo, Emily Di, and Rachel Hayes (eds), Voyages (= MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 18 (2024)) <https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/wph-18> 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. Dodo, Emily Di, and Rachel Hayes (eds), Voyages (= MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 18 (2024)) <https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/wph-18> [accessed 7 April 2025] 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 Voyages, ed. by Emily Di Dodo and Rachel Hayes (= MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 18 (2024)) <https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/wph-18> [accessed 7 April 2025], pp. 24-27. But in any subsequent notes, a heavily abbreviated form is used: 37 Compare Dodo and Hayes, p. 17. |