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APA (7th ed.) referencing guide (Online): Work within an Anthology

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Works within an Anthology

Below you will find guidance and examples of how to reference a work within an anthology in the body of your work and in the reference list at the end.

In text citation

A work within an anthology should be cited like a chapter in an edited book. The author of the work should be used for the in-text reference. You can use a combined date system where the first date is the original date and the second is the date of the anthology.

Example:
Wordsworth and Coleridge (1798/2012) state that...

OR
... (Wordsworth & Coleridge, 1798/2012).

Example:

Lewis (1948/1999) suggests that...
OR
...
(Lewin, 1948/1999).

Reference list

Print

Last name, Initial(s). (Year). Chapter title. In Initial. Last name (Eds.), Book title (edition, pages of chapter).  Publisher. (Date original work published).

Example:
Wordsworth, W., & Coleridge, S. T. (2012). Lyrical ballads. In D. Wu (Ed.), Romanticism: An anthology (pp. 333-415). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1798).

 

Online

Last name, Initial(s). (Year). Chapter title. In Initial. Last name (Eds.), Book title (edition, pages of chapter).  Publisher. DOI (Date original work published).

Example

Lewin, K. (1999). Group decision and social change. In M. Gold (Ed.). The complete social scientist: A Kurt Lewin reader (pp. 265-284). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/10319-010 (Original work published 1948).