How to Cite an Edited Book or Anthology

A whole book of chapters or works by different authors, under one or more editors.

For one chapter, poem or essay in it, see Book Chapter. A book one author wrote throughout is a Book.

What You'll Need

Collection Title
Short title
Editor(s)
Year Published
Publisher
Publisher Location
Edition
ISBN
URL

Cite the whole book when you use it as a whole, and one chapter in it as a Book Chapter. The title page names the editors, and the copyright page gives the publisher and the year.

Example Citations

APA 7th edition
McLaughlin, B. P., Beckermann, A., & Walter, S. (Eds.). (2009). The Oxford handbook of philosophy of mind. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199262618.001.0001
In-text (McLaughlin et al., 2009)
MLA 9th edition
McLaughlin, Brian P., et al., editors. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind. Oxford University Press, 2009, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199262618.001.0001.
In-text (McLaughlin et al.)
Chicago 18th edition (notes and bibliography)
McLaughlin, Brian P., Ansgar Beckermann, and Sven Walter, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind. Oxford University Press, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199262618.001.0001.
Footnote Brian P. McLaughlin et al., eds., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind (Oxford University Press, 2009), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199262618.001.0001.
Harvard (Cite Them Right 12th edition)
McLaughlin, B.P., Beckermann, A. and Walter, S. (eds) (2009) The Oxford handbook of philosophy of mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199262618.001.0001.
In-text (McLaughlin, Beckermann and Walter, 2009)
IEEE
[1]
B. P. McLaughlin, A. Beckermann, and S. Walter, Eds., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199262618.001.0001.
In-text [1]

Numbered by order of appearance in your document.

Vancouver
1.
McLaughlin BP, Beckermann A, Walter S, editors. The Oxford handbook of philosophy of mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2009.
In-text (1)

Numbered by order of appearance in your document.

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