There are two types of formats for referencing a book:
1. An authored book.
This is where the whole book has same author or authors.
If this is the case, then you reference the book as a single source regardless of how many different chapters you use.
See examples Authored Book.
2. As a chapter in an edited book.
This when a book has an editor or editors who have compiled the book, but the majority of the chapters are written by contributors not the editors whose names are on the cover of the book. If this is the case, you need to reference each chapter as a separate source.
See examples in the Book - Chapter in an edited book section.
How can you tell the Difference?
Ideally the introductory pages in the front section of the book will identify that the names on the cover of the book are editors, however this is not always the case.
Note the introductory page can include the following: front matter, title page, copyright page, about the editors or authors, forward, preface and contributors.
Use the following principle to guide you:
"If the majority of the chapters are not written by the names on the cover of the book then use the referencing format a chapter in an edited book".
In-text citation
(Chapter Author, Year)
(Bradley, 2008)
(Smith et al., 2010)
For direct quoting a ClinicalKey book refer to ClincalKey Books examples.
Reference list
Print book
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of chapter. In B. B. Editor (Ed.), Title of book (Xth ed., pp. xxx–xxx). Publisher.
Bradley, E. G. (2008). Nursing management: Hypertension. In D. Brown & H. Edwards (Eds.), Lewis’s medical-surgical: Assessment and management of clinical problems (2nd ed., pp. 822-844). Elsevier.
eBook without DOI
(Includes library eBooks and Clinical Key eBooks)
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of chapter. In B. B. Editor (Ed.), Title of book (xth ed., pp. xxx-xxx). Publisher.
Craik, J., & Horton, K. (2019). A spotlight on: Sustainable Australian Indigenous fashion. In A. Gwilt, A. Payne & E. A. Ruthschilling (Eds.), Global perspectives on sustainable fashion (pp. 191-193). Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
Note: If the eBook is from a website other than the TAFE QLD Library, include a URL at the end of the reference.
eBook with DOI
Author, A. A. (Year). Title of chapter. In B. B. Editor (Ed.), Title of book (Xth ed., pp. xxx–xxx). Publisher. https://doi.org/xxxxx
Balsam, K. F., Martell, C. R., Jones, K. P., & Safren, S. A. (2019). Affirmative cognitive behavior therapy with sexual and gender minority people. In G. Y. Iwamasa & P. A. Hays (Eds.), Culturally responsive cognitive behavior therapy: Practice and supervision (2nd ed., pp. 287-314). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000119-012
In-text citation
(Chapter Author, Year)
(Parekh de Campos et al., 2024) Note: Only use original chapter authors in-text, not adapted author.
Reference list
Book with a new author adapting a chapter
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of chapter (B. B. New Author, Adapt.). In C. C. Editor (Ed.), Title of book (xth ed., pp. xxx–xxx). Publisher.
Parekh de Campos, A., Pandey, S., & Rosa, W. E. (2024). Palliative care (K. M. Breaden, Adapt.). In D. Brown, T. Buckley, R. L. Aitken, & H. Edwards (Eds.), Lewis’s medical surgical nursing: Assessment and management of clinical problems (6th Australia and New Zealand ed., pp. 127-147). Elsevier Australia.
Note: Only use original chapter authors in-text, not adapted author.
Use the format above for the physical copy of book Lewis’s medical surgical nursing: Assessment and management of clinical problems: Note the CK online copy does not have adapted authors anymore.
If there is a reference to ‘Based on the original chapter by’ they are the Chapter Author/s. Any other names mentioned will be the Adapted Author/s.
If there is a mention of 'Adapted Author/s' make them the Adapted Author/s and any other names ie 'written by' will then be the Chapter Author/s.
If there is just a list of names for a chapter than they are all Chapter Author/s.
If it only says, ‘written by’ and no other qualifiers then treat as Chapter Author/s.