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Chicago 18 author-date: cite a edited-book chapter
Cite a separately authored chapter in a Chicago 18 author-date reference list, with the book title, edited by Leo Rowan, and the publisher.
What goes into a chapter entry here
A chapter with its own author in an edited book is cited under the chapter author. In this author-date entry the chapter title is in quotation marks, the book title is italicized after In, and the editor is introduced with edited by and a full name. The 18th-edition baseline on this page leaves out the chapter's page range, which Chicago treats as optional.
Applied to Stone's chapter in Rowan's collection, the entry reads: Stone, Maya. 2024. “A Sample Chapter.” In Collected Sample Studies, edited by Leo Rowan. Example Press.
Pages and place are your choice to add
In the workbench the page range is not required for Chicago chapters, unlike APA, MLA, IEEE and NLM chapters. If you type 12-18, the entry adds it after the editor: edited by Leo Rowan, 12–18. A city typed into Publication or institution city/place is also printed, as London: Example Press. Leave both empty to match the example on this page, or add them when your instructions ask for them.
Entering the chapter
- Choose Chicago 18 author-date reference and Separately authored book chapter.
- Add Maya Stone in Authors and Leo Rowan in Editors. Without an editor the workbench holds the entry, since the reviewed chapter case needs actual editors.
- Enter A sample chapter with the title-case form A Sample Chapter, and Collected Sample Studies as the containing work.
- Type Example Press and 2024, then press Create reference.
- If the book has two editors, add a second editor row; the workbench joins the names with and.
Chapters in the app
In Citelle choose Book chapter on the Edit source screen; it shows the Editors section, the Book title field and Pages. Fill the chapter's pages if you have them, because the app prints them when present. Copy in-text gives (Stone 2024) for Chicago author-date. With several editors, the app lists them all after edited by and joins the last two with and.
Keep these roles straight
- The chapter author is Maya Stone; the editor of the book is Leo Rowan. Do not swap them.
- Do not use the book's publication year for a chapter reprinted from an earlier work without checking the source.
- If one author wrote the whole book, cite the book, not each chapter as a contribution.
- Keep the book title in Containing work or site, not in the source title.
Gather the source details
- Confirm that the chapter has its own author.
- Record the chapter title and containing book title separately.
- Record the book editor and publisher.
- Check the chapter’s published page range and any required edition details.
- Author
- Maya Stone
- Title as supplied
- A sample chapter
- Publication year
- 2024
- Containing work or site
- Collected Sample Studies
- Editor
- Leo Rowan
- Publisher
- Example Press
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