AGLC4 Rule 6.6.2: Books with an Author and Editor
A book with both an author and an editor names the author before the title, and ed with the editor's name after the title. ed is used however many editors there are.
AGLC4 page 104
Format
Quoted from the Guide, page 104Author, Title, ed Editor (Publication Details).
A boxed element is filled in with the source's details; everything outside a box is written exactly as shown.
Formatting
- The author comes first, followed by a comma and the italic title.
- A comma follows the title, then ed, a space and the editor's name or names.
- ed stands for edited by and is never pluralised.
- No bracket follows the editor; the publication details bracket follows after a space.
- Where there is also a translator, a comma follows the editor and then tr with the translator's name.
Examples
Quoted from the Guide, page 104- 34JS Mill, Utilitarianism, ed Roger Crisp (Oxford University Press, 1998) 14.
- 35Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, ed GEM Anscombe and GH von Wright, tr Denis Paul and GEM Anscombe (Harper Torchbooks, 1972).
See also
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