MHRA Style Guide. A Handbook for Authors and Editors. Third Edition.

The MHRA Style Guide is intended primarily for use in connectionwith books and periodicals published by the Modern HumanitiesResearch Association, but it is also widely useful to students andother authors, to editors, and to publishers of texts writtenmainly in English. Its chapters deal with preparing material forpublication; spelling and usage; names; abbreviations; punctuation;capitals; italics; dates, numbers, currency, and weights andmeasures; quotations and quotation marks; footnotes and endnotes;references; the preparation of indexes; useful works of reference;and proof correction. This third edition has been revised andupdated in the light of developments in technology and means ofcommunication, and of suggestions made by users of the secondedition. It introduces a Quick Guide to the main features of MHRAstyle, and it gives fuller information on referencing, includingonline publications and social media, and on indexing.