Exercise 2: Another Web Resource
For this exercise, imagine you wanted to cite the seventh paragraph of this article from an electronic journal which you read on September the 20th, 2012. We've copied the web address into the box below to save you having to type it out. Do be careful though not to allow extraneous blank spaces to enter your answer, as that can confuse the script which assesses your footnote.
Correct footnote:
Your footnote above should look like this:Daniel Shore, 'Learning to Obey in Milton and Homer', *Early Modern Literary Studies*, 16.1 (2012) <http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/16-1/shorlear.htm> [accessed 20 September 2012] (para. 7).In your own work, the same footnote would look like this:
Daniel Shore, 'Learning to Obey in Milton and Homer', Early Modern Literary Studies, 16.1 (2012) <http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/16-1/shorlear.htm> [accessed 20 September 2012] (para. 7).
Comments:
If you visit the website for this e-journal and browse their other articles, you will see that they make a point of numbering each paragraph to allow for ease of referencing.
You will note that underneath the author's e-mail address, this site provides its own bibliographical details for the article. This is very helpful in summarising the key information you need. However, it is important you re-format this information so that it follows the MHRA conventions (here, for instance, we place the web address in angle brackets and add the 'accessed' information).
If you were going to cite several articles from this journal, you might want to adopt the acronym they use for their title: EMLS. Your footnote would then look like this:
Daniel Shore, 'Learning to Obey in Milton and Homer', EMLS, 16.1 (2012) <http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/16-1/shorlear.htm> [accessed 20 September 2012] (para. 7).
Where you include abbreviations, these should be defined in a 'List of Abbreviations' at the start if your work.
