Is it a Journal Article, a Book, or a Chapter in a Book? Identifying Citations: Chapters in Books
An online book.
A CHAPTER IN A BOOK WITH AN EDITOR: CITATION ELEMENTS IDENTIFIED
This color-coded guide identifies the standard elements that make up a citation for a chapter in a nonfiction edited book where each chapter has a different author; such books tend to be scholarly ones. You will need information on the individual chapter as well as the book for a complete citation. Notice how the arrangement of the very same elements changes depending on where you are viewing it as demonstrated in the following screenshots and photos of the actual book.
O’Neill, J. (1996). Dinosaurs-R-Us: The (Un) Natural History of Jurassic Park. In J. J. Cohen (Ed.), Monster Theory: Reading Culture (NED-New edition, pp. 292–308). University of Minnesota Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsq4d.17
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COLOR KEY
AUTHOR(S) OF CHAPTER O’Neill, J.
DATE 1996
TITLE OF CHAPTER Dinosaurs-R-Us: The (Un) Natural History of Jurassic Park
EDITOR(S) OF BOOK In J. J. Cohen (Ed.)
TITLE OF BOOK Monster Theory: Reading Culture
EDITION STATEMENT NED-New edition
PAGES 292–308
PUBLISHER University of Minnesota Press
STABLE URL INSTEAD OF DOI http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsq4d.17
CITATION FOR A CHAPTER IN A BOOK WITH AN EDITOR IN A DATABASE LIST OF RESULTS
The book chapter citation in the example on the left as it appears in the JSTOR database list of results. We still need the editor of the book and the stable URL for the chapter to make a complete citation.
By clicking the title of the chapter, we go to another screen where there is a bit more citation information along with the online book itself. We have the stable URL for the chapter, but we still need the editor of the book.
We can either use the citing tool in this database, or since clicking the chapter title took us to the online book, we can check for the editor's name in other ways.
