question: for an old book, for example 'Hamlet' by shakespeare, in my footnotes/biblography do i write the original date of publication or the date of the edition im using?
also, would you happen to know the format of a footnote for a play/poem? e.g. how normally its author, title, publisher + year, page number
for a play do you put page number, line number ? and for a poem ?
I don't know for deff. but peronsally I'd write it like this:
for a poem author (Last name, first name initial - Sanders, V), 'title of poem', l40-67, 1991
for a play Sanders, V, 'play name', p12, l1-7, 2006
if it's wrong rectifying it won't take long. You really should know this though - at University if you referance wrong your marks will heavily suffer. In my History coursework, our referencing is taken into account in the written communication part, the section is outta 15 marks I think.
also, would you happen to know the format of a footnote for a play/poem? e.g. how normally its author, title, publisher + year, page number
for a play do you put page number, line number ? and for a poem ?
BlueBanana
I don't know for deff. but peronsally I'd write it like this:
for a poem author (Last name, first name initial - Sanders, V), 'title of poem', l40-67, 1991
for a play Sanders, V, 'play name', p12, l1-7, 2006
if it's wrong rectifying it won't take long. You really should know this though - at University if you referance wrong your marks will heavily suffer. In my History coursework, our referencing is taken into account in the written communication part, the section is outta 15 marks I think.
But it's just silly marks to lose
The above looks fine.
With the caveat that I don't do English Lit at uni, I would say the way you reference isn't that important as long as you 1) do it the same way consistently throughout and 2) include all the relevant information. Unless you've been told to do it in a specific way you can have any sensible order for the bits of information.