Follow the guidelines below to format references to books and book chapters.

Format

Author's Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial If Given. (Year of Publication). Title of book: Subtitle if any. Publisher.

When a book has an editor with each chapter written by a different author, you should list the author of the book chapter, followed by the book and editor information and page numbers for the chapter.

Author's Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial If Given. (Year of Publication). Title of chapter. In Editor First Initial. Second Initial If Given, Last Name (Ed.), Title of book: Subtitle if any (pp. first page-last page of chapter). Publisher.

Example

Erickson, C. K. (2018). The science of addiction: From neurobiology to treatment. Norton.

Daradoumis, T., & Xhafa, F. (2005). Problems and opportunities of learning together in a virtual learning environment. In T. S. Roberts (Ed.), Computer-supported collaborative learning in higher education (pp. 219–233). Idea Group Publishing.

Tips

Use sentence case for titles of books (i.e., begin with a capital letter, end with a period, and capitalize the first letter after a colon or question mark).
If a book has multiple editors, you can list them and use the abbreviation Eds. as in the example below.

Christians, C. G. (2011). Ethics and politics in qualitative research. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), The Sage handbook of qualitative research (pp. 61-80). Sage Publications.