SED Expanded Reference Guide
Fuller guide to referencing in SED (e.g. film, online and electronic sources), including examples of how to present quotations, footnotes (and how to limit footnotes) and bibliographies in your essays.
4. Footnotes
4.7. Dissertations and Theses
Titles of unpublished theses and dissertations should be placed within single quotation marks, and should not be italicised.
- Ava Arndt, ‘Pennies, Pounds and Peregrinations: Circulation in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture’ (unpublished doctoral thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1999), p. 45.
- Jennie Batchelor, 'Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and Sentimental Literature' (unpublished doctoral thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2002), p. 32.
- Kate Harris, ‘Ownership and Readership: Studies in the Provenance of the Manuscripts of Gower’s Confessio Amantis’ (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of York, 1993), p. 10.
- Stephanie Hovland, ‘Apprenticeship in Later Medieval London, c.1300-c.1530’ (unpublished doctoral thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2006), p. 101.
