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Leeds Harvard: Book chapter (in an edited book)

Reference examples

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.   

 

 

Citation examples

Book chapter (in an edited book)

In the citation use the name of the author of the chapter, not the editor of the book.

When the author name is not mentioned in the text, the citation consists of the author’s name and the year of publication in brackets.

Example:

It was emphasised that citations in the text should be consistent (Jones, 2017).

 

If you have already named the author in the text, only the publication year needs to be mentioned in brackets.

Example:

Jones (2017) emphasised that citations in the text should be consistent

Corporate author

If the item is produced by an organisation, treat the organisation as a "corporate author". This means you can use the name of the organisation instead of that of an individual author. This includes government departments, universities or companies. Cite the corporate author in the text the same way as you would an individual author.

Example:

According to a recent report, flu jabs are as important as travel vaccines (Department of Health, 2017).
 

When to include page numbers

You should include page numbers in your citation if you quote directly from the text, paraphrase specific ideas or explanations, or use an image, diagram, table, etc. from a source.

Example:

"It was emphasised that citations in a text should be consistent" (Jones, 2017, p.24).

When referencing a single page, you should use p. For a range of pages, use pp.

Example:

p.7 or pp.20-29.

If the page numbers are in Roman numerals, do not include p. before them.

Example:

(Amis, 1958, iv)

Common issues

When you're referencing with Leeds Harvard you may come across issues with missing details, multiple authors, edited books, references to another author's work or online items, to name a few. Here are some tips on how to deal with some common issues when using Leeds Harvard.

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