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MHRA Referencing Guide: Nau Mai, Haere Mai

The MHRA style guide offers detailed examples and formatting guidance for citing sources in humanities research. It covers books, articles, websites, and more using footnotes and bibliographies.

Nau Mai, Haere Mai

This guide gives detailed examples on many different source types you may reference in your studies.

This guide

Use the menu to navigate through each part of the guide, and if you still have any questions, contact the Teaching and Learning team at library@waikato.ac.nz or book with one of use via your Subject Guide.

Have a look at the Formatting guidelines for a brief introduction of the MHRA referencing style and how it should be set out.

The pages contain examples of the sources you are most likely going to be referencing, what information you need to create the different references, and example references that you can follow.

MHRA Updated edition

In 2024, the MHRA guide was updated from the 3rd edition to the 4th edition.

We have listed the four changes on the 'Changes from MHRA 3rd to 4th edition' page. Please have a look, even if you are proficient with the 3rd edition.