Modern Humanites Research Association 3rd edition keeps disappearing when opening Zotero

PaulaMjones · March 5, 2025

I've been using MHRA 3rd edition (which is not the same of the University of York edition) and now it's disappeared from the style list. I had downloaded it and installed it but every time I open Zotero, the 3rd edition citation style is gone and I have to install it again. And again.. Every single time.

Does anyone have any idea of what the problem is? Has MHRA 3rd edition been removed and if so, any chance of putting it back up?

I'm running Zotero 7.0.13.

dstillman · March 5, 2025

Where are you installing from? The style is now on the 4th edition, and the previous version was updated to that version last week. The 3rd edition style is no longer available from us, and if you install an old version of the official style, it will auto-update to the 4th edition.

https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=modern humanities

adamsmith · March 5, 2025

(MHRA has officially withdrawn the 3rd edition, which is why we at CSL removed the style rather than keeping both 3rd and 4th edition, as we often do for other styles)

PaulaMjones · March 5, 2025

Thanks for your replies dstillman and adamsmith. Much appreciated. That makes sense. My uni hasn’t moved to the 4th edition yet :(. I’ll have to chase and see if they will be changing soon given that the 3rd edition is now gone. Thanks again

adamsmith · March 6, 2025

If you must use the 3rd edition, we can tell you how to get that version back, but seems silly to require a style for which you can no longer get the style guide

PaulaMjones · 2025-03-17T14:07:59+00:00

Hi Adam, after checking with my supervisor, I need the 3rd edition as the university still require place to be included in the citation for books. So, if you could tell me how to get the 3rd edition back, I’d really appreciate it.

adamsmith · 2025-03-17T14:13:39+00:00

Download the style from here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citation-style-language/styles/296f9ab65c1eb1e3774e33dc6214044db89d783d/modern-humanities-research-association.csl

(right-click -->save link as)

Open in a text editor (like Notepad) and change modern-humanities-research-association to modern-humanities-research-association-3rd-edition every time you see it, including in the filename. Save (making sure you keep the .csl extension) and double-click to install.

PaulaMjones · 2025-03-18T17:18:50+00:00

Thanks Adam, the problem now is that every time I quit Zotero, I have to reinstall the 3rd edition. Is there anyway to embed it so that I don't have to keep doing this?

adamsmith · 2025-03-18T17:21:13+00:00

You're not changing the ID

dunning · 2025-03-18T19:09:03+00:00

It is true that the place of publication is optional in the MHRA Style Guide. I've proposed a variant that includes it:

https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/7483

You can download the style here to test it:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citation-style-language/styles/d83c0aba38ee66fe8ee117b8fe21704d4a7a2d70/modern-humanities-research-association-publisher-place.csl

dunning · 2025-03-22T06:33:38+00:00

The MHRA variant including the place of publication is now available on the style repository:

https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=mhra

This should eliminate any need for the third edition (which the MHRA have officially withdrawn).

PaulaMjones · 2025-03-27T16:42:41+00:00

Thanks Dunning, I seem to be sorted now. Much appreciation to you and Adam.