According to the MHRA Style Guide, this item should be cited in a bibliography as follows:

Atkinson, William C., ‘Classical and Modern Spanish Literature’, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 3: Survey Year 1932, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 3 (MHRA, 1932), pp. 89–94, doi:10.2307/25833268

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'.

Atkinson, William C.

Step 2. This is regular MHRA style, so the name's followed by a comma.

Atkinson, William C.,

Step 3. Now we add the title, in single inverted commas. Any single quotation marks already in the title must be converted to doubles.

Atkinson, William C., ‘Classical and Modern Spanish Literature’

Step 4. We have to say where this comes from, so:

Atkinson, William C., ‘Classical and Modern Spanish Literature’, in

Step 5. Next we identify where the article is to be found, using italics, not quotation marks, for the volume title.

Atkinson, William C., ‘Classical and Modern Spanish Literature’, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 3: Survey Year 1932

Step 6. 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.

Atkinson, William C., ‘Classical and Modern Spanish Literature’, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 3: Survey Year 1932, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 3

Step 7. 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.

Atkinson, William C., ‘Classical and Modern Spanish Literature’, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 3: Survey Year 1932, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 3 (

Step 8. Now a colon, a space, and the publisher's name. Abbreviating to 'MHRA' is fine here.

Atkinson, William C., ‘Classical and Modern Spanish Literature’, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 3: Survey Year 1932, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 3 (MHRA

Step 9. Then the year of first publication, and we're done with the bracketed part.

Atkinson, William C., ‘Classical and Modern Spanish Literature’, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 3: Survey Year 1932, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 3 (MHRA, 1932)

Step 10. 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'.

Atkinson, William C., ‘Classical and Modern Spanish Literature’, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 3: Survey Year 1932, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 3 (MHRA, 1932), pp. 89–94

Step 11. This contribution has a DOI, so the Fourth Edition Guide (2024) requires us to quote it, like so.

Atkinson, William C., ‘Classical and Modern Spanish Literature’, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 3: Survey Year 1932, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 3 (MHRA, 1932), pp. 89–94, doi:10.2307/25833268

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:

• The author's name doesn't always come first: only for monographs. For collections and editions, the title comes first.
• Even if the author's name does come first, it's back to being the right way round, so it's Forename Surname, not Surname, Forename;
• Unlike Bibliography entries, notes are punctuated as sentences, and usually end in full stops.

Suppose we want to cite a passage on pages 24 to 27:

³⁴ See William C. Atkinson, ‘Classical and Modern Spanish Literature’, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 3: Survey Year 1932, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 3 (MHRA, 1932), pp. 89–94, doi:10.2307/25833268, pp. 24-27.

But in any subsequent notes, a heavily abbreviated form is used:

³⁷ Compare Atkinson, p. 17.