AGLC4 Rule 6.7: Translated Books

A translated book is cited by its translated title, with tr and the translator's name after the title and before the publication details. tr is used for any number of translators. The original title and year may be added after any pinpoint, in a square bracket beginning trans of, where that helps a reader find the book.

AGLC4 page 104

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 104
Author, Translation Title, tr Translator (Publication Details).
[trans of: Original Title (Year of Publication)].

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

Formatting

  • The title used is the translated title, in italics.
  • A comma follows the title, then tr, a space and the translator's name or names.
  • tr stands for translated by and is never pluralised.
  • The publication details bracket follows the translator after a space.
  • The original title and year may be added after any pinpoint, inside square brackets introduced by trans of and a colon.
  • In that bracket the original title is italic and its year is in round brackets.
  • For a translated work inside a collection, the work's title is in quotation marks, followed by a comma, tr and the translator, then in and the collection's details.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 104
  1. 36
    Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents, tr Joan Riviere (Hogarth Press, 1930).
  2. 37
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One, tr RJ Hollingdale (Penguin Books, 1961) 210–13.
  3. 38
    Franz Kafka, ‘The Metamorphosis’, tr Willa Muir and Edwin Muir in Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories, ed Nahum N Glatzer (Schocken Books, 1971) 89.
  4. 39
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology, tr Hazel E Barns (Methuen, 1969) 151 [trans of: L’Etre et le Néant (1943)]

See also

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