A DOI is a sustainable URL that starts with . In the case of online articles also give the URL or preferably (if present) the DOI (Digital Object Identifier). Sign up for a free trial and try a sample module today.In the reading list (in alphabetical order) you include the paging of the entire article, in the reference in the text you put the page(s) of the quote. If you’d like to learn how to use the major academic referencing styles correctly, our Becoming A Proofreader will teach you everything you need to know. In Metahorror, edited by Dennis Etchison, 370–77. In practice, a reference would therefore look like this: Note that it is the full page range for the chapter here, not just the specific page cited in the footnote. In Book Title, edited by Editor Name, Page range. The reference format in the bibliography is a little different: Dennis Etchison (New York: Dell Publishing), 371. So, for instance, the chapter above could be cited as:ġ Peter Straub, ‘The Ghost Village’, in Metahorror, ed. Editor Name(s) (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), Page number(s). N Name, ‘Chapter Title’, in Book Title, ed. In Chicago footnotes, the format for citing an edited book is as follows: In practice, then, a reference would look like this: In Book Title, edited by Editor name(s), Page range. In the reference list the correct format is: With in-text citations, the chapter author should be cited just as the author would for a book with a single author. If you suspect that the client has cited the editors when they should be citing the chapter author, leave a comment about this. The only time the editor should be cited is when referencing the entire volume. The details of the container volume will then be given in the reference list or bibliography.

The BasicsĪs with any referencing system, your client is most likely to need to cite the chapter author rather than the editor(s) of the volume as a whole when citing an edited book. Footnotes and a bibliography (more common in humanities subjects)Īs such, we’ll cover both approaches in the guide that follows.

Author–date citations and a reference list (more common in the sciences).

In this post, we’re going to look at Chicago referencing. It’s referencing time again! And today we’re looking at how to cite edited books again. Sound the celebratory trombone and strike the ritual tambourine.

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