The general format for referencing printed material is:
Author name, ‘Title of Smaller Work if Part of a Larger Work’, in Title of Larger Work, names and titles of editor or translator (Name of Publisher, Year), page range if part of a larger work (p. # cited).
For more specific information on referencing books, see section 7.3 of the MHRA Style Guide, and the examples below.
Pamela Regis, A Natural History of the Romance Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), p. 86.
Charlotte Brontë, Villette, ed. by Herbert Rosengarten and Margaret Smith (Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 103.
Stephen Orgel, ‘Shakespeare Illustrated’, in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture, ed. by Robert Shaughnessy (Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 67-92 (p. 72).
Congenial Spirits: The selected letters of Virginia Woolf, ed. by Joanne Trautmann Banks (Hogarth, 1989), pp. 357.
It can seem a little confusing how to cite edited primary source material like example above, where the material has been written by the author, but collected and edited by someone else. For this kind of material - like other edited collections - the order goes Title then Editor.
If you are referring to an edited critical collection as a whole, rather than by it's individual essays or chapters, then you would follow the same citation format.
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies, ed. by Siobhan B. Somerville (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Provide either a DOI or a URL plus accessed date (shorten the URL to something sensible the whole string isn't needed e.g.
Boitani, Mann, Boitani, Piero, and Mann, Jill, The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2003) https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521815568
Paul Johnson, Love, Heterosexuality and Society (London: Taylor & Francis, 2005), p.76. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/ [Accessed 28 October 2024].
Books in databases like Early English Books Online (EEBO) or The Internet Archive are somewhat unique among internet-based material because they are usually scans of printed material and thus considered stable, so you do not need to provide the URL or the accessed date. You can use the publication information found on the title page or verso of the book, like most other printed material.
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from this World to that which is to Come: Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream, wherein is Discovered the Manner of his setting out his Dangerous Journey and Safe Arrival as the Desired Country, 11th edn (London: Printed for Nathanial Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultry near the Church, 1688), p. 11.
For books in databases which have been transcribed, such as in Project Gutenberg, these are less stable sources, so include the URL and date accessed (like you would for an eBook).
Author Name, Book Title in Title of Collection p. x (if available) <URL> [accessed day month year].
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde <https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43/43-h/43-h.htm> [14 March 2023].
Joanna Russ, ‘Somebody’s Trying to Kill Me and I Think it’s my Husband’, Journal of Popular Culture, 6.4 (March 1973), pp. 666-691 (p. 673).
K. Allison Hammer, ‘”Doing Josephine”: The Radical Legacy of Josephine Baker’s Banana Dance’, Women’s Studies Quarterly, 48.1-2 (2020), pp. 165-181 (p. 167) < https://doi-org./10.1353/wsq.2020.0010 >.
Ketih M.C. O’Sullivan, ‘”You Know Where I Am If You Want Me”: Authorial Control and Ontological Ambiguity in the Ghost Stories of M. R. James’, Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Stories, 15 (Autumn 2016), pp. 44-56 (p.51) <https://irishgothichorror.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/issue15-keithmcos-mrjames.pdf> [Accessed 20 May 2021].
Provide either a DOI or a URL plus accessed date (shorten the URL to something sensible the whole string isn't needed. See section 7.4 of the MHRA Style Guide for more examples of journal citations.
Follow the same general rules as journal articles
Name of Author, ‘Title of Article’, Name of Newspaper, Day Month Year of Publication, Section of Newspaper if relevant, page number.
Richard Webb, ‘An Ode to Physics’, New Scientist, 28 March 2020, p. 31.
Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Giovanni Russonello, ‘Punk-Rock Teens’ Anti-Hate Anthem, and 10 More New Songs’, New York Times, 20 March 2021, The Playlist < https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/arts/music/playlist-linda-lindas-city-girls-lil-baby.html> [24 May 2021].
Translator, time period in which published, branch of Christianity, these are all factors which change the texture and content of a different versions of the Christian Bible, making it important to specify the version from which you are quoting.
For more information on citing from The Bible, see section viii of the Faculty Guide.
Holy Bible, The New American Bible, (Fireside Bible Publishers: Wichita, KS, 2000-2001), Proverbs 28. 3.
Holy Bible, Twentieth Century New Testament (1904), Matthew 5. 38-42, in The Bible in English < http://collections.chadwyck.co.uk > [accessed 20 March 2020].