Exercise 2: An Edition of a Primary Work
A first reference to a critical edition is similar in format to a first reference to a single-author book which, of course, takes the form: author's name, Title: Sub-Title (Place: Publisher, Date), p. number. However, when you are citing a critical edition, you also give the editor's name in full and preceded by 'ed. by' after the title. For instance:
George Eliot, Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, ed. by David Carroll (London: Penguin Books, 2003), p. 72.
Note the comma after the title and the full stop in 'ed. by' (indicating the abbreviation of 'edited by').
Exercise
For this exercise, imagine you wanted to reference pages seventy nine to eighty three of this edition. Type your answer in the box below.
Correct footnote:
Your footnote above should look like this:Jane Austen, *Persuasion*, ed. by James Kinsley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 79-83.In your own work, the same footnote would look like this:
Jane Austen, Persuasion, ed. by James Kinsley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 79-83.
Comment:
As this specific edition (with a new introduction and critical apparatus) first appeared in 2004, we use that date, rather than 1980 or 1988.
Note that the 'b' in 'ed. by' should not be capitalised. Be sure to check that your computer does not autocapitalise it.
As well as 'ed. by', you will also find in citations the phrases 'trans. by' (translated by), 'rev. by' (revised by), 'comp. by' (compiled by), and even 'ed. and trans. by' (edited and translated by).
In citing critical editions, there is typically no need to note the presence of the 'Introduction' (regardless of whether it is by the editor or by another academic). If you wanted to cite Lynch's 'Introduction' to Persuasion you would do it in the same way you'd cite an article in a book (discussed in Exercise 3), namely:
Deidre Shauna Lynch, 'Introduction', in Jane Austen, Persuasion, ed. by James Kinsley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. vii-xxxiii.
