Q. How do I reference a chapter of an edited book in APA Style?

APA Style (7th ed.)

Please see below for general examples of the formatting to reference an authored chapter in an edited book/ebook. For more information, please refer to pages 326-329 in the APA manual. See How Do I Reference a Book in APA Style? for information on how to cite an entire book.

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (year). Title of chapter or entry. In A. Editor, B. Editor, & C. Editor (Eds.), Title of book (pp. xxx-xxx). Publisher.

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (year). Title of chapter or entry. In A. Editor, B. Editor, & C. Editor (Eds.), Title of book (pp. xxx-xxx). Publisher. http://www.xxxxxx

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (year). Title of chapter or entry. In A. Editor, B. Editor, & C. Editor (Eds.), Title of book (pp. xxx-xxx). Publisher. https://doi.org/xxxxxxxxx

Book Chapter, Print Version

Hansen, J. (2011). Global warming twenty years later. In B. McKibben (Ed.), The global warming reader (pp. 275-284). Penguin Books.

• See page 326, e.g. #39 of the APA manual.
• In-text citation: (Hansen, 2011, p. X)

Ebook Chapter with a DOI 

Rowe, A.D. (2011). Feelings about feedback: the role of emotions in assessment for learning. In D. Carless, S. Bridges, C. Chan, & R. Glofcheski (Eds.), Scaling up assessment for learning in higher education (pp. 159-172). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3045-1_11

Ebook Chapter without a DOI 

Clemons, J. (2011). Leading the way into the future of libraries. In M.K. Wallace, R. Tolley-Stokes, E.K. Estep (Eds), The generation X librarian: Essays on leadership, technology, pop culture, social responsibility, and professional identity (pp. 91-98). McFarland & Company. 

• If the book has a DOI assigned to it, please provide the DOI at the end of the reference as a link: https://doi.org/xxxx. For more information about DOIs, please see What is a DOI and How is it Used in APA Style?.
• The standard APA Style approach to referencing resources without DOIs from a subscription-based database is to provide the author, date, title, and periodical information only, rather than to provide the direct URL for an article requiring users to sign in for access, or to provide the link to the home page of the database (American Psychological Association, 2020, p. 299). Some books may be available online without logging into a subscription-based database (see Clemans, 2011 above), but the DOI should be included instead when available “regardless of whether you used the online version or the print version” of the article (APA, 2020, p. 299) .

Reference

American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000