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Titles of Works Titles of novels, plays, films, longer poems published as works in their own right, critical books, collections of short stories or poems, and television series are presented in italics (e.g., Thomas Hardy‘s Jude the Obscure, Shakespeare‘s King Lear, Byron‘s Don Juan, Terry Eagleton‘s Against the Grain, Arthur Conan Doyle‘s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Seamus Heaney‘s Station Island). Titles of shorter poems, short stories, essays and television episodes are presented in single quotation marks (Hardy‘s ‗The Darkling Thrush‘, Conan Doyle‘s ‗A Case of Identity‘, Terry Eagleton‘s ‗The Critic as Clown‘). See section 6.4 of the MHRA Style Guide. References A reference is an acknowledgement of the source either of quotations written by another person or of ideas from another person which you have used in your essay. References are important for three reasons. First, they demonstrate where you are getting the evidence for your statements, thus showing the good research you have done for your essay. Second, they enable your reader to find the quotation in the original source text if he or she so wishes. Third, you will avoid accusations of plagiarism (passing off the work of another author as your own), which is a serious academic offence. References should be placed in either a footnote (our preference) or an endnote and should include the page(s) from which the idea or quotation is taken. References should be numbered consecutively throughout the essay in Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3). The note number can be placed at the end of the sentence where it will disrupt your reading least, or immediately after the quotation. Sometimes it is a good idea to group references into a single note rather than have a rash of note numbers over a series of sentences. Put the reference after the last of a group of references (where no original material intervenes); the ‗cluster‘ should not, however, run over into another paragraph. What information may need to be included? The commonest form you will need for a full-length work is: Author, Title, ed. by (editor‘s name) [where relevant] (Place of publication: Publisher, Date of Publication), page number(s). This information will usually be found on the title page of the book you are citing. For example: Michael Greaney, Conrad, Language and Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 101-2. Short stories or short poems or essays should be laid out as follows: Author, ‗Title of Work‘, in Title of Book, ed. by (editor‘s name) [where relevant], edition [where relevant] (Place of publication: Publisher, Date of Publication), page number(s). For example: John Keats, ‗Ode to a Nightingale‘, in The Norton Anthology of Poetry, ed. by Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter and Jon Stallworthy, 4 th edition (New York: Norton, 1996), pp. 845-7.
Chapters in edited books should be laid out as follows: Author, ‗Title of Chapter‘, in Title of Book, ed. by (editor‘s name) (place of publication: publisher, date of publication), page number(s). For example: Eric Doumerc, ‗Benjamin Zepheniah: The Black British Griot‘, in Write Black, Write British: From Postcolonial to Black British Literature, ed. By Kadija Sesay (London: Hansib, 2005), pp. 193-208. Articles (in journals) should be laid out as follows: Author, ‗Title of Article‘, Title of Journal Volume:No. (year): page numbers For example: Moore, Lindsey, ‗The Veil of Nationalism: Frantwe Fanon‘s ―Algeria Unveiled‖ and Gillo Pontecoryo‘s The Battle of Algiers‘, Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing 25:2 (2003): p. 59. Internet articles should be laid out as follows: Author‘s name, ‗Title of Item‘, Title of complete work or resource, Publication details (Volume, Issue, Date), Full URL address of the resource in angle brackets, Date you consulted it (in square brackets), location of passage cited (in round brackets). For example: Robert A. Duggen, ‗―Sleep No More‖ Again: Melville‘s Rewriting of Book X of Wordsworth‘s Prelude‘, Romanticism on the Net, issues 38-39, May-August 2005, [accessed 9 th August 2006] (paragraph 3 of 51). When using internet material for your research, do not take information from Wikipedia, or an essay you have found by Googling, for granted; it is up to you to ascertain that the internet sources you use are scholarly and trustworthy. Lectures should be laid out as follows: Lecturer‘s name, title of lecture, date and place of delivery. (Seminar discussions do not need to be referenced, but material taken from a handout given to you by the tutor would need to be). For further details, including how to reference chapters in books, articles in journals, online databases, films, etc, see the MHRA Style Guide. Examples taken from that source, (section 11) include: Theses/Dissertations Diedrich Diederichen, ‗Shakespeare und das deutsche Märchendrama‘ (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Hamburg, 1952), p. 91. Newspaper/Magazine Articles Jonathan Friedland, ‗Across the Divide‘, Guardian, 15 January 2002, section G2, pp. 10- 11. The Bible Isaiah 22. 17. An equivalent system can be used for the Qur‘an or Torah.
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