How to cite a book chapter
When you cite one chapter from an edited book, you credit the chapter’s author and the book’s editors. You need both, plus the page range of the chapter within the book.
What you'll need
- Chapter author(s)
- Year
- Chapter title
- Book editor(s)
- Book title (italicized)
- Page range
- Publisher
Examples: how to cite a book chapter
Real, correctly formatted citations — generated by Corroba's engine, not hand-typed.
APA (7th ed.)
Nguyen, L. (2019). Attention and memory. In A. Brown & S. Green (Eds.), Handbook of cognition (pp. 101–130). Academic Press.
In-text: (Nguyen, 2019)
MLA (9th ed.)
Nguyen, Linh. “Attention and Memory.” Handbook of Cognition, edited by Alan Brown and Sara Green, Academic Press, 2019, pp. 101–130.
In-text: (Nguyen)
Chicago (notes)
Nguyen, Linh. “Attention and Memory.” In Handbook of Cognition, edited by Alan Brown and Sara Green. Academic Press, 2019.
In-text: Linh Nguyen, “Attention and Memory,” in Handbook of Cognition, ed. Alan Brown and Sara Green (Academic Press, 2019).
Harvard
Nguyen, L. (2019) “Attention and memory,” in A. Brown and S. Green (eds.) Handbook of Cognition. London: Academic Press, pp. 101–130.
In-text: (Nguyen, 2019)
Example source shown for illustration. Always cite the actual book chapter you used.
Common gotchas
- The chapter author goes first; the editors follow the book title.
- Give the chapter’s exact page range.
- If you used the whole book, cite it as a book instead.
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Questions
- What do I need to cite a book chapter?
- To cite a book chapter you need: Chapter author(s), Year, Chapter title, Book editor(s), Book title (italicized), Page range, Publisher.
- How do you cite a book chapter in APA?
- Nguyen, L. (2019). Attention and memory. In A. Brown & S. Green (Eds.), Handbook of cognition (pp. 101–130). Academic Press.
- How do you cite a book chapter in MLA?
- Nguyen, Linh. “Attention and Memory.” Handbook of Cognition, edited by Alan Brown and Sara Green, Academic Press, 2019, pp. 101–130.
- Does Corroba cite a book chapter automatically?
- Yes — paste a link, DOI, or title and Corroba builds the citation from real data, for free, in APA, MLA, Chicago and thousands more styles.