A Guide to Referencing your Work

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Modern Humanities Research Association
   1. Footnotes and Endnotes
   2. Referencing Books
   3. Books with more than one author
   4. Books with an editor or translator
   5. Chapters or Articles from Books
   6. Articles from Journals
   7. Articles from newspapers and magazines
   8. Unpublished dissertations and theses
   9. Plays and Long Poems
   10. The Bible
   11. Online Sources
   12. Articles from electronic journals
   13. Material from online databases
   14. Recorded media - films, music, sound recordings etc.
   15. Subsequent references
   16. Bibliography
   17. Variations on the footnote system
3. Harvard (author-date) referencing system
4. Revision Exercises

Plays and Long Poems

References to plays, long poems and works by classical writers should initially be given in full in order to inform the reader of the specific edition used (and thus the editor, translator etc). Subsequent references should be made in an abbreviated form, providing

• The title of the work in italics
• The number of the 'act', 'book' etc in small capital roman numerals (I, IV)
• The number of the 'scene' or 'chapter' in arabic numerals (1, 4, 7)
• The specific line reference or section number in arabic numerals

The numbers in the reference should be separated with full stops, not commas.

Examples