MHRA Style Citation Demonstration
Click cover to enlarge | According to the MHRA Style Guide, this item should be cited in a bibliography as follows: Fürst, Juliane, Polly Jones, and Susan Morrissey (eds), The Relaunch of the Soviet Project, 1945-64 (= Slavonic and East European Review, 86.2 (2008)) 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. Fürst, Juliane, Polly Jones, and Susan Morrissey 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.) Fürst, Juliane, Polly Jones, and Susan Morrissey (eds) Step 3. Now a comma, not a full stop: Fürst, Juliane, Polly Jones, and Susan Morrissey (eds), Step 4. This is a themed and titled journal issue, so we give that title here, just as if it were a book. Fürst, Juliane, Polly Jones, and Susan Morrissey (eds), The Relaunch of the Soviet Project, 1945-64 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. Fürst, Juliane, Polly Jones, and Susan Morrissey (eds), The Relaunch of the Soviet Project, 1945-64 (= Slavonic and East European Review, 86.2 (2008)) 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 Relaunch of the Soviet Project, 1945-64, ed. by Juliane Fürst, Polly Jones and Susan Morrissey (= Slavonic and East European Review, 86.2 (2008)), pp. 24-27. But in any subsequent notes, a heavily abbreviated form is used: 37 Compare Fürst, Jones, and Morrissey, p. 17. |