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Book Chapters

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•  These examples are for chapters or parts of edited works in which the chapters or parts have individual titles and author/s, but are included in collections or textbooks edited by others.

  If the editors of a work are also the authors of all of the included chapters, then it should be cited as a whole book using the examples given for Books.

  Titles and subtitles are given maximal capitalisation.

  Book titles and subtitles are italicised.

•  Include the DOI for e-books in your reference, if given.

•  Do not include the protocol in the DOI  (http:// or https://)

•  Do not include the access date if a DOI is included.

•  Include the internet address if no DOI is available.

When including the internet address of articles retrieved from searches in full-text databases, use the Recommended URLs for Full-text Databases, which are the URLs for the main entrance to the service and are easier to reproduce.

 Include the complete Internet address and date accessed for e-book sourced from the Internet.

Format

Standard format for citation

Edited e-book:

#. Author of Part, A. A.; Author of Part, B. B. Title of Chapter or Part. In Title of E-book: Subtitle of E-book; Editor, A. A., Editor, B. B., Eds.; Publisher, Year; pp page numbers. Internet address (accessed Year-Month-Day).

 

Edited e-book with DOI:

#. Author of Part, A. A.; Author of Part, B. B. Title of Chapter or Part. In Title of E-book: Subtitle of E-book; Editor, A. A., Editor, B. B., Eds.; Publisher, Year; pp page numbers. DOI:0000000/000000000000

 

Edited print book:

#. Author of Part, A. A.; Author of Part, B. B. Title of Chapter or Part. In Title: Subtitle of Book, Edition (if not the first); Editor, A. A., Editor, B. B., Eds.; Publisher, Year; pp page numbers.

Examples

Chapter from an edited e-book

1. Mukherjee, B.; Gupta, V.; Agnihotri, S. Nanostructures for Hydrogen Storage. In Nanochemistry : Synthesis, Characterization and Applications.; Taylor & Francis, 2023, 17pp. DOI: 10.1201/9781003081944

2. Hammond, C. Crystal Symmetry. In The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction, 4th ed.; International Union of Crystallography Texts on Crystallography, Vol. 21; Oxford University Press, 2015; pp 99−134. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738671.003.0004

Chapter in an edited print book

3. Almlof, J.; Gropen, O. Relativistic Effects in Chemistry. In Reviews in Computational Chemistry; Lipkowitz, K. B., Boyd, D. B., Eds.; VCH, 1996; Vol. 8, pp 206-210.

4. Ford H. L.; Sclafani R. A.; Degregori J. Cell Cycle Regulatory Cascades. In Cell Cycle and Growth Control: Biomolecular Regulation and Cancer, 2nd ed.; Stein G. S., Pardee A. B., Eds.; Wiley-Liss, 2004; pp 42-67.

Article in an electronic encyclopaedia

5. Cloverly, S. Flow Analysis: Segmented Flow Analysis. Encyclopedia of Analytical Science, 3rd ed.; Elsevier Academic Press, 2015. Updated March 12, 2019. https://librarysearch.murdoch.edu.au/permalink/61MUN_INST/1vtc1j0/alma991005039629707891.

Article in a print encyclopaedia

6. Dorfman, J. R. Kinetic Theory: Transport and Fluctuations. In Encyclopedia of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry; edited by John H. Moore, J. H., Spencer, N. D., Eds.; Institute of Physics, 2001; Vol. 1, pp 573-595.

Article in a print encyclopaedia: No author

7. Polybenzimidozoles. In Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia, 9th ed.; Considine, D. G., Kulik, P. H., Eds.; Wiley-Interscience, 2002; Vol. 2, p 2807.

Article from an electronic dictionary:  No author

8. Cytosine. A Dictionary of Chemistry, 7th ed.; Oxford University Press, Posted 2016. https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198722823.001.0001/acref-9780198722823-e-1185 (accessed 2023-04-01).

 


See the All Examples page for examples of in-text and reference list entries for specific resources such as articles, books, book chapters and web pages.