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MHRA Style Guide 4th edition (author-date) is an author-date style: the in-text citation gives the author surname and year in parentheses.
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Journal article
Babonis, Leslie S., and Mark Q. Martindale. 2022. ‘A Novel Regulatory Gene Network in Cnidarians’, PNAS, 119.19, p. e2113701119, doi:10.1073/pnas.2113701119
Book
Kuhn, Thomas S. 1970. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (University of Chicago Press)
Web page
IPCC. 2021. ‘Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis’, 9 August <https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/> [accessed 15 July 2026]
In-text citation
(Babonis and Martindale 2022)
Journal article with 26 authors
Harris, Charles R., and others. 2020. ‘Array Programming with NumPy’, Nature, 585.7825, pp. 357–62, doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2
MHRA Style Guide 4th edition (author-date) at a glance
Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.
- Used mainly in history, the humanities, linguistics, literature, philosophy and theology.
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names only the first author and shortens the rest.
- In the text, the same paper becomes (Harris and others 2020).
- First names are written out in full.
- DOIs are printed with a "doi:" prefix.
- Web pages include the date you accessed them.
- The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author.
- The reference list uses a hanging indent.
- The style file was last updated in February 2025.
The guide this style follows: mhra.org.uk
How MHRA Style Guide 4th edition (author-date) compares with Springer - Humanities (author-date)
Where MHRA Style Guide 4th edition (author-date) differs:
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names only the first author and shortens the rest.
- DOIs are printed with a "doi:" prefix.
- Web pages include the date you accessed them.
The same journal article in Springer - Humanities (author-date)
Babonis, Leslie S., and Mark Q. Martindale. 2022. A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS 119: e2113701119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113701119.
Frequently asked questions
How many authors does MHRA Style Guide 4th edition (author-date) list?
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names only the first author and shortens the rest. In the text, the same paper becomes (Harris and others 2020).
How does MHRA Style Guide 4th edition (author-date) handle DOIs and web pages?
DOIs are printed with a "doi:" prefix. Web pages include the date you accessed them.
How is the reference list ordered in MHRA Style Guide 4th edition (author-date)?
The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author. The reference list uses a hanging indent.
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