AGLC4 Rule 6.6.1: Chapters in Edited Books

A chapter in an edited book is cited by the chapter author, the chapter title in quotation marks, the word in, the editor with (ed) or (eds), the italic book title, the publication details, the page where the chapter starts and a pinpoint. Each chapter's first citation gives the book's details in full, and later references use the chapter author and point to that chapter's first footnote.

AGLC4 page 103

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 103
Author, ‘Chapter Title’ in Editor (ed), Title (Publication Details) Starting Page, Pinpoint.

A boxed element is filled in with the source's details; everything outside a box is written exactly as shown.

Formatting

  • The chapter author is roman and is followed by a comma.
  • The chapter title is in single quotation marks and roman, as article titles are under rule 5.2.
  • Only a space and the word in come between the closing quotation mark and the editor; there is no comma.
  • The editor's name is followed by (ed), or (eds) for more than one editor, and then a comma.
  • The book title is italic and is followed by the publication details in round brackets.
  • The starting page of the chapter follows the bracket after a space, with no comma.
  • A pinpoint follows the starting page after a comma and a space.
  • Where several chapters of one book are cited, the first citation of each chapter repeats the book's details in full instead of cross referring.
  • Subsequent references use the chapter author's surname and refer to the footnote where that chapter was first cited.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 103
  1. 28
    Jeremy Waldron, ‘Do Judges Reason Morally?’ in Grant Huscroft (ed), Expounding the Constitution: Essays in Constitutional Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2008) 38.
  2. 29
    Meg Russell, ‘Reform of the House of Lords: Lessons for Bicameralism’ in Nicholas Aroney, Scott Prasser and JR Nethercote (eds), Restraining Elective Dictatorship: The Upper House Solution? (University of Western Australia Press, 2008) 119.
  3. 31
    Janet Ransley, ‘Illusions of Reform: Queensland’s Legislative Assembly since Fitzgerald’ in Nicholas Aroney, Scott Prasser and JR Nethercote (eds), Restraining Elective Dictatorship: The Upper House Solution? (University of Western Australia Press, 2008) 248, 252–3. [Not: … in Aroney, Prasser and Nethercote (eds) (n 29) 248, 252–3.]
  4. 32
    Russell (n 29) 122.
  5. 33
    Ransley (n 31) 255. [Not: Ransley (n 29) 255.]

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 103
  • [Not: … in Aroney, Prasser and Nethercote (eds) (n 29) 248, 252–3.]
    the first citation of each chapter gives the book's details in full
  • [Not: Ransley (n 29) 255.]
    the cross reference points to the footnote where this chapter, not another chapter, was first cited

See also

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Formats, examples, passages, tables and the forms marked Not are quoted from the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed, Melbourne University Law Review Association, 2018), with the page of the Guide they appear on. Titles, summaries and explanations are our own.