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NWU Harvard Referencing Guide

Based on the NWU Referencing Guide.

Chapter in a collected work



A collected work comprises a number of chapters, each written by a different author(s) and compiled by an editor(s).

When a chapter in a collected work is used, the author of the chapter must be cited. The information of the book (collected work) is mentioned after that, and also the page numbers of the chapter.

 

Harvard referencing collected work

 

Collected works with different dates

When a collection is published with contributions with different dates and by different authors, the original date of the contribution is used in the text reference and the publication date of the collected work is added in the reference list.

Jakobson, R. 1959. On linguistic aspects of translation. In: Venuti, L., ed. 2004. The translation studies reader. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 138-143.

Text reference:
Jakobson (1959:139) explains that synonyms are not, as a rule, complete equivalents.