How to enter books and reports where chapters are written by different authors
Hi --
I am not sure how to best enter for citations books and reports where there is one editor of the book or reports and each chapter or sub section is written by different authors. Especially since I will be using more than one chapter or section from the work.
Do I create separate entries for each chapter/section?
(Going to be doing APA and Chicago styles)
I am not sure how to best enter for citations books and reports where there is one editor of the book or reports and each chapter or sub section is written by different authors. Especially since I will be using more than one chapter or section from the work.
Do I create separate entries for each chapter/section?
(Going to be doing APA and Chicago styles)
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This would only get tricky if you somehow needed to cite a work as a whole while attributing it to each individual author as part of the group, but that would be a very uncommon format (not APA or Chicago) so it shouldn't be a problem (and in that case, referring to a whole book, you would just cite by editor). Referring to sub-sections of works can also get a little tricky, if they don't nicely break up into book sections. There are a few help threads discussing that topic on the forums here, if you run into one of those unusual situations. But from your question it sounds like the most common case, easily solved with the "Book Section" item type in Zotero.
Container title: Title of full report
Editor: Last || First A.
(This is not needed for normal book chapters, for which there is a special type.)