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MHRA Style Guidepocket academic writing style guide for humanities The key to this style guide is in its subtitle: 'Notes for Authors, Editors, and Writers of Theses'. It has been produced by the Modern Humanities Research Association as a manual of advice and procedures for people preparing texts for publication. The MHRA has simply assembled a set of conventions to help users through the minutiae of the scholarly editing and presentation of texts.
The latest edition has been expanded to cover preparing texts for electronic publication and there are sections on indexing and writing a thesis or a dissertation. There's a glossary, sections on book reviews and correcting proofs, and a good index. I first came across this book when it was chosen by the Open University as a set text for some of its postgraduate courses. Getting students to follow the conventions is still hard work, but it's a lot easier than it used to be. What I like most about the book is that it gives you the impression that you're just about to publish an important piece of work. Since it's also amazingly cheap, it's worth buying as a confidence-booster alone. © Roy Johnson 1999-2008 [more STYLE GUIDE manuals] MHRA Style Guide: Notes for Authors, Editors, and Writers of Theses, London: Modern Humanities Research Association, new second edition 2008, pp.95, ISBN 0947623620
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