A first draft of an MHRA style bibliography according to http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/StyleGuideV3_2.pdf

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@book{crut1997,
  address   = {Cambridge},
  author    = {Alan Cruttenden},
  edition   = {2},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  title     = {Intonation},
  year      = 1997,
}
@book{mcarthur1986,
  author    = {Tom McArthur},
  title     = {Worlds of Reference},
  subtitle  = {Lexicography, Learning and Language from the Clay Tablet to the Computer},
  date      = {1986},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  location  = {Cambridge},
}
@book{fuentes1986,
  author    = {Carlos Fuentes},
  title     = {Aura},
  date      = {1986},
  editor    = {Peter Standish},
  publisher = {University of Durham},
  location  = {Durham},
  series    = {Durham Modern Language Series: Hispanic Texts},
  number    = {1},
}
@book{starobinski1986,
  author    = {Jean Starobinski},
  title     = {Montaigne in Motion},
  date      = {1986},
  translator= {Arthur Goldhammer},
  publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
  location  = {Chicago},
}
@mvbook{chadchad1932,
  author    = {H. Munro Chadwick and N. Kershaw Chadwick},
  title     = {The Growth of Literature},
  date      = {1932/1940},
  translator= {Arthur Goldhammer},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  location  = {Cambridge},
  volumes   = {3},
}
@collection{emilydickinson,
  editor    = {Thomas H. Johnson},
  options   = {useeditor=false},
  title     = {Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters},
  date      = {1985},
  edition   = {2},
  publisher = {Harvard University Press},
  location  = {Cambridge, MA},
}
@incollection{elsky1982,
  author    = {Martin Elsky},
  title     = {Words, Things, and Names: Jonson's Poetry and Philosophical Grammar},
  editor    = {Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth},
  booktitle = {Classic and Cavalier: Essays on Jonson and the Sons of Ben},
  date      = {1982},
  publisher = {University of Pittsburgh Press},
  location  = {Pittsburgh},
  pages     = {31-55},
}
@incollection{calcraft1984,
  author    = {R. P. Calcraft},
  title     = {The Lover as Icarus},
  subtitle  = {Góngora’s \enquote{Qué de invidiosos montes levantados}},
  editor    = {Salvador Bacarisse and others},
  booktitle = {What's Past Is Prologue},
  booksubtitle = {A Collection of Essays in Honour of L. J. Woodward},
  date      = {1984},
  publisher = {Scottish Academic Press},
  location  = {Edinburgh},
  pages     = {10-16},
}
@article{hillyer1990,
  author    = {Richard Hillyer},
  title     = {In More than Name Only},
  subtitle  = {Jonson's \enquote{To Sir Horace Vere}},
  journal   = {MLR},
  volume    = {85},
  date      = {1990},
  pages     = {1-11},
}
@article{spikes1970,
  author    = {J. D. Spikes},
  title     = {The Jacobean History Play and the Myth of the Elect Nation},
  journal   = {Renaissance Drama},
  series    = {newseries},
  volume    = {8},
  date      = {1970},
  pages     = {117-149},
}
@article{davis1983,
  author    = {Nathalie Z. Davis},
  title     = {Beyond the Market},
  subtitle  = {Books as Gifts in Sixteenth-Century France},
  journal   = {Transactions of the Royal Historical Society},
  series    = {5},
  volume    = {33},
  date      = {1983},
  pages     = {69-88},
}
@phdthesis{ingram1988,
  author    = {R. J. Ingram},
  title     = {Historical Drama in Great Britain from  1935 to the Present},
  institution = {University of London, Birkbeck College},
  year      = {1988},
  pubstate  = {unpublished},
}

@article{jongeneel2007,
  author    = {Els Jongeneel},
  title     = {Art and Divine Order in the Divina Commedia},
  journal   = {Literature and Theology},
  volume    = {21},
  date      = {2007},
  pages     = {131-145},
  doi       = {10.1093/litthe/frm008},
}
@reference{crystal2010,
  author    = {Crystal, David},
  date      = {2010},
  title     = {An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Language and Languages},
  edition   = {3},
  location  = {Oxford},
  publisher = {Blackwell},
}
@incollection{hermetet2006,
  author    = {Hermetet, Rachel},
  date      = {2006},
  title     = {\emph{The Criterion} et les littératures européennes, 1922--1925s},
  booktitle = {Revues modernistes anglo-américaines: lieux d’échanges, lieux d’exil},
  editor    = {Benoît Tadié},
  location  = {Paris},
  publisher = {Ent’revues},
  pages     = {189–2000},
}
@collection{macaulay1992,
  editor    = {MacAulay, Donald},
  date      = {1992},
  title     = {The Celtic Languages},
  location  = {Cambridge},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
}
@article{sohmer1999,
  author   = {Sohmer, Steve},
  title    = {The Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare's \emph{King Lear}},
  journal  = {Early Modern Literary Studies},
  volume   = {5},
  number   = {2},
  date     = {1999-09},
  pages    = {1-17},
  url      = {http://purl.oclc.org/emls/05-2/sohmlear.htm},
  urldate  = {2000-01-28},
}
@article{lee2009,
  author   = {Richard Lee},
  title    = {The Rebirth of Inherited Memories},
  journal  = {MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities},
  volume   = {4},
  date     = {2009},
  pages    = {18-24},
  url      = {http://www.mhra.org.uk/ojs/index.php/wph/article/viewFile/73/70},
  urldate  = {2012-05-01},
}
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