MHRA - non-'Author-Date'

steffan_john
My University uses MHRA, but not the author-date style.

I.e. Books are supposed to be referenced like this:
John Tosh and Sean Lang, The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History, 4th edn (Harlow: Longman, 2006), pp. 20-34.

However, Zotero seems to only have the Author-date style, so they come out like so:
Keynes, John Maynard, A Treatise on Money in Two Volumes (Mansfield Centre: Martino Publishing, 2011)

Is there any way I can change it so that the authors come with their full names in order - as in 'Firstname Lastname' - rather than 'Lastname, Firstname'.

Any help would be great
  • adamsmith
    The MHRA (note with bibliography) style has a format for citations (notes) and for bibliographies (the author-date style is something entirely different). The citation format - to be included in footnotes - is exactly as you want it.
    You can get it by using the word processor plugin and using insert citation, by selecting "note" when using "Create Bibliography" or by holding the shift key when using drag&drop.
  • steffan_john
    Ok. Thanks for your help; I think I might be struggling by having Windows for Mac then.

    Normally I just drag and drop, but I get the citations reversed. It does come out the right way if I hold shift, but they all come after each other separated by a semi-colon, rather than every reference given a fresh line.

    It does come out in the right format if I do create it as an rtf file via
    'Create Bibliography from items'>Save as rtf 'OK', but I've not figured out the way to create a new bibliography document that's in Word

    Thanks again for your help
  • adamsmith
    I'm not sure I understand the use case here. What is this for?
    Surely you're not supposed to have a bibliography in the Firstname Lastname format? That makes no sense whatsoever and also goes against MHRA:
    In an alphabetical bibliography the surname of the author or editor whose surname governs the alphabetical position will precede the forename(s) or initial(s).
    (p. 79)

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