How to cite us - MELD

This page gives examples of how to cite the corpus and the articles on this site.

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We would like you to acknowledge us by providing the information given in the examples, adjusted to stylesheet conventions as required.

The current version of the corpus is 2017.1, and the latest changes were made in December 2020.

Citing the entire corpus website:

Either

MELD = A Corpus of Middle English Local Documents, version 2017.1, December 2020. Compiled by Merja Stenroos, Kjetil V. Thengs and Geir Bergstrøm. University of Stavanger. http://www.uis.no/meld   

Or

Merja Stenroos, Kjetil V. Thengs and Geir Bergstrøm (2017-), A Corpus of Middle English Local Documents (MELD), version 2017.1.  University of Stavanger. http://www.uis.no/meld (Accessed: 31 December 2020)

Citing a specific flavour of the corpus:

Merja Stenroos, Kjetil V. Thengs and Geir Bergstrøm (2017-), A Corpus of Middle English Local Documents (MELD), version 2017.1. Readable version. University of Stavanger. http://www.uis.no/meld (Accessed: 31 December 2020)

Citing articles from the corpus site:

Merja Stenroos, Kjetil V. Thengs and Geir Bergstrøm (2017-), A Corpus of Middle English Local Documents (MELD), Catalogue of sources, version 2017.1. University of Stavanger. http://www.uis.no/meld (Accessed: 31 December 2020)

Citing individual corpus texts: References to individual corpus texts should include the MELD codes for texts, e.g. "D0314" and a reference to the corpus flavour (e.g. Concordance version) where appropriate.