LibGuides: Writing Center Textual Works: Edited Book Chapters and Reference Work Entries

Edited Book Chapters and Reference Work Entries

This category includes guidance on how to cite a specific chapter with an individual author in an edited book and a specific entry in a reference work, like a dictionary, thesaurus, or encyclopedia.

The reference structure for edited book chapters and reference work entries is as follows:

Chapter Author	Date	Title	Source
Edited Book Information	DOI or URL
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. Name of Group.	(2020).	Title of chapter.	In E. E. Editor (Ed.), Title of book (pp. 3–13). Publisher Name. In E. E. Editor & F. F. Editor (Eds.), Title of book (3rd ed., Vol. 4, pp. 233–253). Publisher Name	https://doi.org/xxxx https://xxxxxx

Chapter Author

Date

Title

Source

Edited Book Information

DOI or URL

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B.

Name of Group.

(2020).

Title of chapter.

In E. E. Editor (Ed.), Title of book (pp. 3–13). Publisher Name.

In E. E. Editor & F. F. Editor (Eds.), Title of book (3rd ed., Vol. 4, pp. 233–253). Publisher Name

https://doi.org/xxxx

https://xxxxxx

SOURCE TYPE	REFERENCE EXAMPLE
Chapter in an edited book with a DOI	Belliveau, G. (2018). Releasing trauma. In P. Tortell, M. Turin, & M. Young (Eds.), Memory (pp. 129–138). Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvbtzpfm.18
Chapter in an edited book without a DOI, from most academic research databases or print version	Lundgren, B., & Holmberg, M. (2017). Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden. In C. Holmberg, S. Blume, & P. Greenough (Eds.), The politics of vaccination: A global history (pp. 260–287). Manchester University Press.
Chapter in an edited ebook (e.g., Kindle book) or audiobook without a DOI, with nondatabase URL	Enos, T., Jones, J., Pearce, L., & Vorndran, K. R. (2012). Consumerism and the coopting of national trauma. In S. Borrowman (Ed.), Trauma and the teaching of writing (2nd ed., pp. 99–112). State University of New York Press. https://google.com/books/edition/Trauma_and_the_Teaching_of_ Writing/ZEoW1abqCn0C?hl=en&gbpv=0
Entry in a dictionary, thesaurus, or encyclopedia, with group author* *When an online reference work is continuously updated and the versions are not archived, use “n.d.” as the year of publication and include a retrieval date.	Merriam-Webster. (n.d). Kairos. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. Retrieved April 28, 2020, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kairos
Encyclopedia entry	Comstock, N.W. (2024). Social justice. In Salem Press Encyclopedia.