Exercise 13: A Book (in many volumes)
In some instances when dealing with a single volume from a multi-volume work (particularly works with their own title), you may find it more appropriate to cite solely the specific volume you are working with. For instance:
Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office, Volume III: Documents Transferred 1960-1966 (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1968).
Note the use of a comma to separate the main title from the volume number, and the use of a colon to separate the volume number from the title of the specific volume
Exercise
For this exercise, imagine you wanted to cite this single volume.
Correct footnote:
Your footnote above should look like this:*The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume I: 1904-1912*, ed. by Andrew McNeillie (London: Hogarth Press, 1986).In your own work, the same footnote would look like this:
The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume I: 1904-1912, ed. by Andrew McNeillie (London: Hogarth Press, 1986).
Comment:
Citing a single volume in this way is not encouraged by the MHRA Style Guide and you should attempt to provide fuller details of the volume collection if possible.
