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How to Cite an Article Inside of a Book

Three Methods:Citing an Article in a Book Using MLACiting an Article in a Book Using APACiting an Article in a Book Using ChicagoCommunity Q&A

Sometimes when you are writing a research paper, you must use an article out of an anthology. Anthologies are collections put together on a certain topic or for a particular reason, such as all of the professors in a particular department writing an article. Just like with any source, you must provide information on the source to tell where you got it from—this is called a citation. A citation includes information like the author’s name, the title of the book, the publisher, and so on. You must provide citations for your sources because otherwise it’s considered plagiarism.

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Citing an Article in a Book Using MLA

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    Start with the author’s name. In the bibliography, begin with the essay author’s last name first, followed by a comma and the first name. For example:
    • “Whistler, George.”
  2. 2
    Add the title of the essay next. Place the title in quotation marks. For example:
    • “Whistler, George. ‘How to Store Books.’”
  3. 3
    Use the title of the book or collection next. Write this information out in italics. For example:
    • “Whistler, George. ‘How to Store Books.’ The Books We Love.”
  4. 4
    Use the abbreviation “Ed.” or “Eds.” Ed. stands for editor. Follow this by the editor or editors’ names. For example:
    • “Whistler, George. ‘How to Store Books.’ The Books We Love. Eds. Jess Jones and Joe Davis.”
  5. 5
    Place the city of publication next. After the city of publication, put a colon and the publisher’s name. Then, add the publication year and a period. For example:
    • “Whistler, George. ‘How to Store Books.’ The Books We Love. Eds. Jess Jones and Joe Davis. Eugene: Ocean Books, 2003.”
  6. 6
    Add the page range for the entry. These are the pages of the essay or article that you are citing within the book. Follow these page numbers with a period. For example:
    • “Whistler, George. ‘How to Store Books.’ The Books We Love. Eds. Jess Jones and Joe Davis. Eugene: Ocean Books, 2003. 54-72.”
  7. 7
    Finally, add the medium of publication. Because you are citing a book, the medium in this case is ‘Print’. For example:
    • “Whistler, George. ‘How to Store Books.’ The Books We Love. Eds. Jess Jones and Joe Davis. Eugene: Ocean Books, 2003. 54-72. Print.”
  8. 8
    Learn how to do an in-text citation for MLA. For an in-text citation, add an open parenthesis before the period in the sentence you want to cite, followed by the essay author’s last name, a comma, and the page where the information came from. For example:
    • “Books should be stored in a dry room (Whistler, 56).” Don’t forget to close the parenthesis before the comma.

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Citing an Article in a Book Using APA

  1. 1
    Start with the author’s name. With APA, you begin with the author’s last name again, but you follow it with just the author’s first and/or middle initial(s). After this, add the year of publication. This is demonstrated in the following example:
    • “Whistler, G. (2003).”
  2. 2
    Include the name of the essay. Don’t put the name of the essay in quotations. Also, use sentence-case capitalization; this means that you only capitalize the first word in the title. For example: “Whistler, G. (2003). How to store books.”
  3. 3
    Add the word “In” and the names of the editor. After you list the names of the editor, write: “(Eds.)”. For example:
    • “Whistler, G. (2003). How to store books. In Jess Jones and Joe Davis (Eds.),”
  4. 4
    Put the name of the book in italics next. Use title-case capitalization, meaning you capitalize the first and last words and other important words. For example:
    • “Whistler, G. (2003). How to store books. In Jess Jones and Joe Davis (Eds.), The Books We Love
  5. 5
    Place the page numbers in parenthesis. These are the pages that the essay or article spans within the book. For example:
    • “Whistler, G. (2003). How to store books. In Jess Jones and Joe Davis (Eds.), The Books We Love (54-72).”
  6. 6
    Use the name of the city, a colon, and the publisher. Follow this information with a period to complete the citation:
    • “Whistler, G. (2003). How to store books. In Jess Jones and Joe Davis (Eds.), The Books We Love (54-72). Eugene: Ocean Books.”
  7. 7
    Learn how to do an in-text citation for APA. For an in-text citation, use a parenthesis, the author’s last name, a comma, the date, a comma, and the page number:
    • “Books should be stored in a dry room (Whistler, 2003, p. 56).”

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Citing an Article in a Book Using Chicago

  1. 1
    Begin with the author’s name. For a Chicago bibliographic entry, begin again with the author’s last name, followed by a comma and the author’s first name. For instance:
    • “Whistler, George.”
  2. 2
    Add the title of the article in quotation marks. Use title-case capitalization; this means that you capitalize all of the important words. For example:
    • “Whistler, George. ‘How to Store Books.’”
  3. 3
    Follow that with the word “In” and the title of the book. ‘In’ indicates that you found the article within the book. For example:
    • “Whistler, George. “How to Store Books.” In The Books We Love,”
  4. 4
    Add “edited by” and the editors’ names. Place the page numbers next, followed by a period.
    • “Whistler, George. “How to Store Books.” In The Books We Love, edited by Jess Jones and Joe Davis, 54-72.”
  5. 5
    Include the city of publication, followed by a colon and the publisher. Finally, add the publication year:
    • “Whistler, George. “How to Store Books.” In The Books We Love, edited by Jess Jones and Joe Davis, 54-72. Eugene: Ocean Books, 2003.”
  6. 6
    Learn how to do an in-text citation for Chicago. For an in-text citation, use your word processing software to create a footnote at the end of the sentence you are citing. In the footnote at the bottom of the page, you will create an entry similar to the one in the bibliography with a few notable differences.
    • Mainly, you are changing some periods to commas (and changing uppercase letters to lowercase letters), enclosing the publication info in parenthesis, and adding the page number at the end for that particular citation. For example:
    • “George, Whistler, “How to Store Books,” in The Books We Love, ed. Jess Jones and Joe Davis (Eugene: Ocean Books, 2003), 34.”

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    Tips

    • Different style guidelines will ask you to format your citation differently and which one you use depends on your professor, department, or school. The major formats are the Modern Language Association (MLA) style, the American Psychological Association (APA) style, and Chicago.
    • Essays in anthologies can be as helpful as essays from anywhere else. In fact, books with collections of essays can be very beneficial since they often have essays on similar topics; therefore, you may be able to find one more than source in the same book for your paper.

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