Chapter in edited collection
Original research draft · October 2026
Working pattern
[Chapter author], [Chapter title], in [Volume title] [first page], [pinpoint] ([editor], [year]).
Capture from the source
Chapter author/title; editors; volume; edition; pages
Check before you use it
Attribute the chapter to its author while identifying the containing work.
Common error: An editor is not automatically the author of each chapter.
Completed example
Authors, editors, collection, chapter, checklist, and pagination are fictional. The example demonstrates contribution-level attribution without borrowing an actual publication's text.
Tessa Rowan, Written Access Paths, in Registers in Practice 101, 118 (Mara Vale & Eliot Reed eds., 2025) [TRAIN-S65].
Read the supplied source facts
Fictional packet TRAIN-S65 contains the edited collection Registers in Practice, edited by Mara Vale and Eliot Reed and published in 2025. Chapter 6, Written Access Paths, is authored by Tessa Rowan and begins at page 101. The assigned discussion appears at page 118. The collection's cover prominently displays the editors' names, while the chapter opening identifies Rowan as its author. An appendix to the chapter reproduces a separately attributed checklist. The assignment concerns Rowan's own explanation in the chapter body, not the editors' introduction or the appended checklist.
Why this works
The chapter author and title identify the contribution, while the containing title and editors identify the larger work. The first page locates the chapter's beginning; the second page locates the passage used. Do not assign authorship to the editors merely because their names appear on the cover. Read the chapter's byline and distinguish its text from attributed material reproduced within it. The source card should record the collection's edition if there is one, the chapter's page range, and the particular component relied on so later checking does not stop at the volume's general catalog record.
When the facts change
If the proposition comes from the editors' introduction, cite that contribution and its actual authorship rather than this chapter. If quoting the appended checklist, identify its creator and reproduced location, and inspect the original when the claim depends on that source. If a later collection reprints the chapter with revisions, verify which version supplies the quoted language instead of assuming that identical titles mean identical text.
Apply the receiving court or publication’s requirements. These working forms do not establish citation permission, precedential weight, or support for a legal proposition.