Alchemy ... Alchemy ... Alchemy ...

This is how I spent Boxing Day, with my legs going to sleep underneath my laptop as I worked for several hours on formatting my references, notes and bibliography for my Alchemy essay according to the MHRA Style Guide. Argghhhh! It took forever! Did you know that if you refer to a specific volume of a set of volumes, then you don't have to put the p. for pages, as it is 'accepted' that you don't need it? But, of course, if you use ( ) to refer to a specific page within the range referred to previously, then you *must* use p. as a prefix. And so on. My brain has the consistency of the Christmas Pudding I'm half-way through. At least the darned thing is done now (well, the essay, that is, I have two puddings still to get through)!

Now, just got to get my Bibliographic Diary done, and I can start my holiday ...