• 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.
• The title of the chapter or part is enclosed in quotation marks and given maximal capitalisation.
Standard format for citation
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Author's Surname, Given Names. "Title of Chapter or Part." Title: Subtitle of Book, edited by Editor Name, edition (if not the first), Publisher, Year, pp. pages. |
Chapter in an edited e-book
Tygstmp, Fredetik. "Changing Spaces: Salman Rushdie's Mapping of Post-Colonial Territories." Literary Landscapes: From Modernism to Postcolonialism, edited by Attie de Lange, et al., e-book ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp.198-213. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/murdoch/detail.action?docID=435770.
Chapter in an edited print book
Sweeney, John. "The New Internationalism." Global Backlash: Citizen Initiatives in a Just World Economy, edited by Robin Broad, MacMillan Press, 2002, pp. 55-62.
Single chapter from an anthology or compilation
Calvino, Italo. "Cybernetics and Ghosts." The Uses of Literature: Essays, translated by Patrick Creagh, Harcourt, 1982, pp. 3-27.
Article from an electronic encyclopaedia
Courtright, Jeffrey L., and Peter M. Smudde. "Power and Public Relations." The International Encyclopedia of Communication, edited by Wolfgang Donsbach, e-book ed., Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Wiley Online Library, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405186407.wbiecp140.
Article in an encyclopaedia
Fowler, Alastair. "Genre." International Encyclopedia of Communications, edited by Erik Barnouw, et al., vol. 2, Oxford UP, c1989, p. 215-17.
Article from an electronic dictionary: No author
"Suffragettes." A Dictionary of Contemporary World History, edited by Jan Palmowski, 3rd ed., e-book ed., Oxford University Press, 2008. Oxford Reference Online, https://www-oxfordreference-com.libproxy.murdoch.edu.au/view/10.1093/acref/9780199295678.001.0001/acref-9780199295678-e-2252.