MHRA Style Citation Demonstration
According to the MHRA Style Guide, this item should be cited in a bibliography as follows: The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 33: Survey Year 1971, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 33 (MHRA, 1973) 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. Here we have the book's title, in italics, not quotation marks. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 33: Survey Year 1971 Step 2. 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. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 33: Survey Year 1971, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 33 Step 3. 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. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 33: Survey Year 1971, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 33 ( Step 4. Now a colon, a space, and the publisher's name. Abbreviating to 'MHRA' is fine here. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 33: Survey Year 1971, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 33 (MHRA Step 5. Then the year of first publication, and we're done with the bracketed part. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 33: Survey Year 1971, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 33 (MHRA, 1973) 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 The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 33: Survey Year 1971, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 33 (MHRA, 1973), pp. 24-27. But in any subsequent notes, a heavily abbreviated form is used: 37 Compare , p. 17. |