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Book chapter (in an edited book)

If you are referencing a book with chapters written by different authors, you need to give details of the chapter, and the book in which you read it.

Family name, INITIAL(S). Year. Chapter title. In: Family name, INITIAL(S) (of editor). ed(s). Title of book. Edition (if not first edition). Place of publication: Publisher, page numbers.

Example:
Coffin, J.M. 1999. Molecular biology of HIV. In: Crandell, K.A. ed. The evolution of HIV. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, pp.3-40.

Online book

Family name, INITIAL(S). Year. Chapter title. In: Family name, INITIAL(S) (of editor). ed(s). Title of book. [Online]. Edition (if not first edition). Place of publication: Publisher, page numbers. [Date accessed]. Available from: DOI (or URL if no DOI available)

Example:
Tilley, C.L. 2013. Children’s print culture: tradition and innovation. In: Dafna, L. ed. Children and advertising policies in the US and beyond. [Online]. London: Routledge, pp.87-94. [Accessed 24 July 2020]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203366981

Translated book

You should reference exactly what you read so, if you read a translation, you should reference the translated version. Include the details of the author(s) and editor(s) of the work and also the details of the translator(s). 

Family name, INITIAL(S). Year. Chapter title. In: Family name, INITIAL(S) (of editor). ed(s). Title of book. Edition (if not first edition). Translated by INITIAL(S) Family name. Place of publication: Publisher, page numbers.

Example:

Han, T. 2014. The night the tiger was caught (1922-1923).  In: Chen, X. ed. The Columbia anthology of modern Chinese drama. Translated by J.S. Noble. New York Chichester: Columbia University Press, pp.97-114.