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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 an individual title 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.

  Only the first letter of the first word of the title of the chapter or part is capitalised.

  Enclose the title of the chapter or part in quotation marks and italicise the title of the whole work. Punctuation goes inside the quotation marks.

Format

Standard format for citation

[#] A. A. Author of Part, "Title of chapter or part," in Title: Subtitle of book, Edition, Vol., A. Editor, Ed. Place of publication: Publisher, Year, pp. inclusive page numbers.

Examples

Chapter in an edited e-book

[1] D. Kawecki, "Fuel preparation," in Combustion Engineering Issues for Solid Fuel Systems, B.G. Miller and D.A. Tillman, Eds. Boston, MA: Academic Press, 2008, 199-240. [Online] Available: ScienceDirect.

Chapter in an edited print book

[2] A. Rezi and M. Allam, "Techniques in array processing by means of transformations, " in Control and Dynamic Systems, Vol. 69, Multidemsional Systems, C. T. Leondes, Ed. San Diego: Academic Press, 1995, pp. 133-180.

[3] G. O. Young, "Synthetic structure of industrial plastics," in Plastics, 2nd ed., vol. 3, J. Peters, Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964, pp. 15-64.

Article from an electronic reference book

[4] D. Ince, "Acoustic coupler," in A Dictionary of the Internet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. [Online]. Available: Oxford Reference Online.

[5] W. D. Nance, "Management information system," in The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Management Information Systems, G.B. Davis, Ed. Malden MA: Blackwell, 1999, pp. 138-144. [Online]. Available: NetLibrary e-book.

Article from an electronic encyclopaedia

[6] G. S. Thompson and M. P. Harmer, "Nanoscale ceramic composites," in Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology, K. H. J. Buschow, R. W. Cahn, M. C. Flemings, B. Ilschner, E.J. Kramer, S. Mahajan, and P. Veyssière, Eds. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001, pp. 5927-5930. [Online]. Available: ScienceDirect.

Article in an encyclopaedia

[7] O. B. R. Strimpel, "Computer graphics," in McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 8th ed., Vol. 4. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997, pp. 279-283.

Article from an electronic dictionary:  No author

[8] "Zenith telescope," in A Dictionary of Astronomy, 2nd ed. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 2007. [Online]. Available from: Oxford Reference Online.


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