Citing and referencing: Play / Poem

• Play, print
• Play, website                                     

• Poem, in a published collection
• Poem, website                         

Authors First Name and Last Name, Title of Play, ed. by Editors First Name and Last Name (if appropriate), Edition name/number (if appropriate) (Place of Publication, Publisher, Date), Act (use roman numerals). scene (use Arabic numbers). line (use Arabic numbers).

 ¹ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ed. by Cyrus Hoy, A Norton Critical Edition, 2nd edn (New York: Norton, 1992),     V. 2. 4-5.

Second and subsequent  footnotes

Shakespeare, William, Hamlet, ed. by Cyrus Hoy, A Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed. (New York: Norton, 1992).

Authors First Name and Last Name, 'Title of Play', Title of Website, ed. by Editors First Name and Last Name (if appropriate), Act (use roman numerals). scene (use Arabic numbers). line (use Arabic numbers). <URL> [Accessed date]

¹ William Shakespeare, 'Romeo and Juliet', The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, created by Jeremy Hilton, II. 2. 3. <http://shakespeare.mit.edu/romeo_juliet/romeo_juliet.3.2.html> [3 June, 2014]

Second and subsequent  footnotes

 Shakespeare, William,  Romeo and Juliet, created by Jeremy Hilton, II. 2.3. <http://shakespeare.mit.edu/romeo_juliet/romeo_juliet.3.2.html> [3 June 2014]

Authors First Name and Last Name, 'Title of Poem', in Title of book/collection, ed. by Name of Editor, edition number (Place of publication: Publisher, Date), book number in roman numerals (if a multi-volume work). Starting line number (if a direct quotation) or line range if referring to a passage.

 ^1. William Yeats, 'The Song of Wandering Aengus', in W.B. Yeats the Major Works, ed. by Edward Larrissy, rev. edn. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). II. 17-18.

Second and subsequent  footnotes

² Yeats, 'The Song of Wandering Aengus', II. 4. 

Yeats, William, 'The Song of Wandering Aengus', in W.B. Yeats the Major Works, ed. by Edward Larrissy, rev. edn. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

Authors First Name and Last Name, 'Title of Poem', Title of Website, starting line number (if a direct quotation) or line range if referring to a passage.

¹ Dylan Thomas, 'The Alamanac of Time', Poetry Foundation, 11 <http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/87/2#!/20585874> [ 1 October 2014]

Second and subsequent  footnotes

 Thomas, Dylan, 'The Alamanac of Time', Poetry Foundation, 11 <http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/87/2#!/20585874> [1 October 2014]