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 Unpublished dissertations and theses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

Articles from Journals

References to articles found in journals are written in a similar manner to those in books. The note should include:

• The name of the author - as it is written in the article
• The title - enclosed in single quotation marks
• The name of the journal - in italics
• The volume number of the journal in Arabic numerals ('1, 2' not 'I, VI')
• Year in which the volume was published
• The first and last page numbers of the article, without 'pp.'
• The specific page number(s) of the reference, following 'p.' or 'pp.' in brackets.

Note that there is no need to use the word 'in', but there should be a comma after the title of the article.

Where a name or other word in the title is enclosed in quotation marks, use double quotation marks in the reference. Only use abbreviations of journal titles where the reader is certain to know to which journal you are referring.

^Examples