Use the following template or our Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition) Citation Generator to cite a chapter of an edited book. For help with other source types, like books, PDFs, or websites, check out our other guides. To have your reference list or bibliography automatically made for you, try our free citation generator.

Notes-Bibliography Format

Reference list

Place this part in your bibliography or reference list at the end of your assignment.

Template:

Author Surname, Author Forename, ed. 'Chapter Title'. In Title, Pages Used. City: Publisher, Year Published. http://Website URL.

Example:

1st ed., 2014.

In-text citation

Place this part right after the quote or reference to the source in your assignment.

Template

Author Forename Author Surname, 'Chapter Title', in Title (City: Publisher, Year Published), Pages Used, http://Website-Url.

Example

with the rapid changes in today’s business and organizations, decision-making has become an integral part of organizational operations and managerial activities at every organizational level in order to achieve systematic decision-making practice leading to successful organizational results and outcomes 1st ed., 2014.

Author-Date Format

Reference list

Place this part in your bibliography or reference list at the end of your assignment.

Template:

Author Surname, Author Forename. Year Published. 'Chapter Title'. In Title, Pages Used. City: Publisher. http://Website URL.

Example:

Walwicz, Ania. 2008. 'Australia'. In True Blue, 1st ed., 205. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin.

In-text citation

Place this part right after the quote or reference to the source in your assignment.

Template

(Author Surname Year Published)

Example

"You try to be friendly but you're not friendly... You insult me" (Walwicz 2008)

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