Chapter in a book
Format for in-text citation
Elements, punctuation & capitalisation
For the in-text citation, provide the author's surname followed by the page(s) cited, so long as the page numbering system appears consistently to other users.
In-text citation example
Australia needs to maintain its triple A rating (Daniels 36)...
Format for reference list
Elements, punctuation & capitalisation
Author(s) of chapter. " Title of chapter."
Reference List example
Daniels, P. J. "Australia's foreign debt: searching for the benefits." Macroeconomics: Contemporary Australian Readings, edited by Sandra Hopkins, 2nd ed., Harper Educational, 1993, pp. 45-60.
Style notes for this reference type
- Author(s) of chapter.
- Title of chapter in quotation marks.
- Title of book (italicised),
- Name of the editor, translator, or compiler of the book being cited,
- Edition if other than first edition (use 2nd ed., 3rd ed., etc),
- Publisher,
- Publication Date,
- Location (Page numbers).
Elements of citation:
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- When the source being documented forms part of a larger whole, the larger whole can be thought of as a container that holds the source. The title of the container is normally italicised and is followed by a comma (5.31).
- The container may be a book that is a collection of essays, stories, poems or other kinds of works, such as podcasts, television series, a website or an art exhibit (5.31).
- Use quotation marks for the titles of chapters in a book (2.109).
- Page numbers in the works-cited list (but not in in-text citations) are now preceded by p. or pp. (5.90; 6:16).
- For books, the city of publication is no longer given, except in special situations (5.67).
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