Expanded Reference Guide

4.2. Chapters in Books

There is really only a need to reference a specific chapter in a book if it is a book which contains chapters written by different authors, such as an edited critical collection.

The information should be given in the following order:

1. Author’s name

2. Title of chapter (in single quotation marks, followed by a comma and the word ‘in’)

3. Title of the book, editor’s name and details of publication (as for a book)

4. The page range within the book for the whole chapter, followed by the specific page cited (in brackets, preceded by 'p.' or 'pp.').

All elements should be succeeded by a comma except when immediately preceding a parenthesis, and all footnotes should end with a full stop.

Examples:

1.  John Bender, ‘Prison Reform and the Sentence of Narration in The Vicar of Wakefield’, in The New 18th Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature, ed. by Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown (London: Methuen, 1987), pp. 180-96 (p. 186).
2. Nigel Leask, ‘“Wandering through Eblis”: absorption and containment in Romantic exoticism’, in Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830, ed. by Tim Fulford and Peter Kitson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 165-80 (p. 177).
3. Elaine Hobby, '"Discourse so unsavoury": Women's published writings of the 1650s', in Women, Writing, History: 1640-1740, ed. by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman (London: B. T. Batsford, 1992), pp. 16-32 (pp. 30-31).
4. Catherine Gallagher, ‘The rise of fictionality’, in The Novel, Vol 1: History, Geography and Culture, ed. by Franco Moretti (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), pp. 336-61 (p. 340).
5. Gerald Lynch, 'Religion and Romance in Mariposa', in Stephen Leacock: A Reappraisal, ed. by David Staines (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1986), pp. 83-96.

Note:

• Chapter titles are always presented in single inverted commas, while the titles of books are presented in italics. This is the same when referring to titles of books and chapters within the text of your essays.
• Where the title of the chapter includes a novel's title – as in example one – make sure that appears in italics.
• Where the title of the chapter includes a quotation – as in examples two and three – follow the rule for a quotation within a quotation (the title appears in single inverted commas and the quotation appears in double). 
• When collections are edited by more than three editors it is acceptable to just include the first editor followed by 'et. al'.
• Remember to include the page range, preceded by 'pp.' 
• When you are citing a specific page, include this in parentheses, also preceded by 'p.' or 'pp.'