Books & eBooks chapters (Chicago style & reference)

General rules – Books & eBooks chapters

• In the text citation, when a book has more than 4 authors, list the first author followed by et al.

 

• In the reference list, when a book has more than 10 authors, list the first 7 followed by et al. The same rule applies for editors.

 

• Use n. d. when the publication date of a book is unknown.

 

• If no fixed page numbers are available, cite a section title, a chapter or other number in the text citation.

 

• Book titles appear in italics.

→ One author

In-Text citation

(Author Last Name Year of publication, pages)

Ex:

(Schmid 1995)

Reference list

Chapter Author’s Last Name, Chapter Author’s First Name. Year of publication. “Chapter title.” In Book title: subtitle, Edition, edited by Editor’s First Name Editor’s Last Name, pages or chapter numbers. Place of Publication: Publisher.

Ex:

Schmid, A. 1995. “The Environment and Property Rights Issues.” In The 
Handbook of Environmental Economics, edited by Daniel W. Bromley, 200–213.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell

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→ Two authors

In-Text citation

(First Chapter Author’s Last Name and Second Chapter Author’s Last Name Year of publication, pages)

Ex:

(Strukova and Golub 1994, 175)

Reference list

Fist Chapter Author’s Last Name, First Chapter Author’s First Name and Second Chapter Author’s First Name, Second Chapter Author’s Last Name. Year of publication. “Chapter title.” In Book title: subtitle, Edition, edited by Editor’s First Name Editor’s Last Name, pages or chapter numbers. Place of Publication: Publisher

Ex:

Strukova, Elena, and Alexander Golub. 1994. “Application of a Pollution Fee System
in Russia.” In Economic Instruments for Air Pollution Control, edited by Ger Klaassen
and Finn R. Forsund, 165–84. London: Kluwer.

 

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→ Three authors

In-Text citation

(First Chapter Author’s Last Name, Second Chapter Author’s Last Name and Third Chapter Author’s Last Name Year of publication, pages)

Ex:

(Robinson, Subramanian and Geoghegan 1989)

Reference list

Fist Chapter Author’s Last Name, First Chapter Author’s First Name, Second Chapter Author’s First Name, Second Chapter Author’s Last Name and Third Chapter Author’s First Name, Third Chapter Author’s Last Name. Year of publication. “Chapter title.” In Book title: subtitle, Edition, edited by Editor’s First Name Editor’s Last Name, pages or chapter numbers. Place of Publication: Publisher

Ex:

Robinson, Sherman, Shankar Subramanian and Jacqueline Geoghegan. 1994.
“Modeling Air Pollution Abatement in a Market-Based Incentive Framework for the
Los Angeles Basin.” In Economic Instruments for Air Pollution Control, edited by
Ger Klaassen and Finn R. Forsund, 46–72. London: Kluwer

 

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→ Four or more authors

In-Text citation

(First Chapter Author’s Last Name et al. Year of publication, pages)

Ex:

(Berenbaum et al. 1999)

Reference list

First Chapter Author Last Name, First Chapter Author First Name, Other Chapter Author’s First Name Other Chapter Author’s Last Name. Year of publication. “Chapter title.” In Book title: subtitle, Edition, edited by Editor’s First Name Editor’s Last Name, pages or chapter numbers. Place of Publication: Publisher

Ex:

Berenbaum, Howard, Chitra Raghavan, Huynh-Nhu Le, Laura Vernon, and Jose Gomez.
1999. “Disturbances in Emotion.” In Well-Being: The Foundation of Hedonic Psychology,
edited by Daniel Kahneman, Ed Diener, and Norbert Schwarz, 267–87. Russel Sage.

In books/eBooks with more than 10 authors, list the first 7 followed by et al.

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→ eBooks chapters

In-Text citation

(Chapter Author’s Last Name Year of publication, pages)

Ex:

(Hodgson 2008)

Reference list

Chapter Author’s Last Name, Chapter Author’s First Name. Year of publication. “Chapter title.” In Book title: subtitle, Edition, edited by Editor’s First Name Editor’s Last Name, pages or chapter numbers. Place of Publication: Publisher. DOI or URL or Name of Database

Ex:

Hodgson, Geoffrey M. 2008. “The Concept of Routine.” In Handbook of Organizational
Routines, edited by Markus C. Becker, 15–28. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/fel/detail.action?docID=355813