How to reference a book chapter in Harvard
For edited books where each chapter has its own authors. Enter the details and copy the reference.
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Author, A. (Year) ‘Title of the chapter’, in E. Editor (ed.) Title of the book. Place: Publisher, pp. xx–xx.
- •The chapter title is in single quotation marks, the book title in italics.
- •The editors follow “in”, initials first, with (ed.) or (eds).
- •The page range of the chapter comes at the end: pp. 35–67.
- •In the text cite the authors of the chapter: (Bjork and Bjork, 1992).
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Do I need the chapter or the whole book?
If the chapters have different authors, reference the chapter you used. If one author wrote the whole book, reference the book.
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