How to Cite an Anthology

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An anthology is a collection of articles, essays, or short stories from different authors. When writing a research paper, you may only need to cite a single author's work within the anthology. However, if you use the anthology as a whole as a source, you need a separate citation. Anthologies are commonly used as sources in literary criticism, but may also be used in other fields. The format of your citation differs depending on whether you use the Modern Language Association (MLA), American Psychological Association (APA), or Chicago citation method.[1]
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MLA

Start your Works Cited entry with the editors' names. If there are multiple editors, list their names in the same order they appear on the title page. List the first editor's last name followed by a comma, then their first name. Add the other editors' names in first name-last name format, separated by commas. Type the word "and" before the last editor's name. Add a comma, and then type the word "editors." Place a period at the end. Example: Hill, Charles A., and Marguerite Helmers, editors.

Add the title of the anthology in italics. Type the title of the anthology in title case, capitalizing all nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, and other words greater than 4 letters long. Place a period at the end of the title. Example: Hill, Charles A., and Marguerite Helmers, editors. Defining Visual Rhetorics.

Provide publication information for the anthology. After the title, list the name of the publisher followed by a comma. Add the year the anthology was published. Place a period at the end of your citation. Example: Hill, Charles A., and Marguerite Helmers, editors. Defining Visual Rhetorics. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. MLA Works Cited Format Last Name, First Name, editor. Title of Anthology in Title Case. Publisher, Year.

Use the correct author's name in your in-text citation. When you mention the anthology in your text, if you're referring to the anthology as a whole, use the editors' names in a parenthetical at the end of the sentence. However, if you're quoting or paraphrasing from an article or essay within the anthology, use that author's name. If you mention the editors' names in your text and are talking about the work as a whole, you don't need an in-text citation. For example: "The anthology, edited by Charles Hill and Marguerite Helmers, examines the relationship between visual images and persuasion." If you quote or paraphrase an article or essay within an anthology, create a separate Works Cited entry for that author's work, even if you already have an entry for the anthology as a whole.

APA

Start your reference list entry with the editor's name and date of publication. Type the last name of the anthology's editor first, followed by a comma. Then type the editor's first initial (and middle initial, if available). Follow with the abbreviation "Ed." in parentheses. Place a period after the closing parentheses. Example: Gold, M. (Ed.). For multiple editors list all in the same format separated by commas. Place a comma and an ampersand before the last editor's name. For example: Smith, J., Jones, R., & Harper, S. (Eds.).

Provide the year of publication and title of the anthology. Type the year of publication in parentheses, placing a period after the closing parentheses. Then type the title in italics. Use sentence case, capitalizing only the first word and any proper nouns in the title. Place a period at the end of the title. Example: Gold, M. (Ed.). (1999). A Kurt Lewin reader: The complete social scientist.

Include publication information for the anthology. For anthologies published in the US and Canada, type the city and the two-letter abbreviation for the state or province, separated by a comma. Place a colon after the abbreviation, then type the name of the publishing company. End your reference list entry with a period. Example: Gold, M. (Ed.). (1999). A Kurt Lewin reader: The complete social scientist. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. For anthologies published outside the US and Canada, use the city name and the name of the country, separated by a comma. APA Reference List Format Last Name, First Initial. (Ed.). (Year). Title of anthology in sentence case. City, State: Publisher.

Use the editor's name and year for in-text citations. Generally, place a parenthetical citation at the end of any sentence in which you paraphrase or quote the anthology. Except with block-style quotations, your parenthetical citation goes inside the closing punctuation. Example: Kurt Lewin's early work highlights his contribution to America's intellectual tradition (Gold, 1999). If the anthology includes different articles and essays from the same author, you can also mention that author's name in the text of your paper. For example: "Kurt Lewin was one of the most influential social scientists of the 20th century (for a collection of his works, see Gold, 1999)."

Chicago

Begin your bibliography citation with the name of the editor. Type the last name, followed by a comma. Add the first name, also followed by a comma, then type the abbreviation "ed." The period at the end of the abbreviation closes this element of your citation. Example: Shell, Marc, ed. If there are 2 or 3 editors, separate their names with commas. Put the word "and" before the name of the last editors. Only reverse the name of the first editors – all others are in first name-last name format. Change the abbreviation to "eds." For anthologies with 4 to 10 editors, include the first 7 names in the bibliography, followed by "et. al."

Type the title of the anthology in italics. Type the title of the anthology in title case, capitalizing all nouns, pronouns, verbs, and adverbs. Place a colon after the title to introduce a subtitle. Capitalize the first word in the subtitle, and type the rest in title case. Place a period at the end. Example: Shell, Marc, ed. American Babel: Literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni.

Provide publication information for the anthology. For anthologies published in the US, type the name of the city and the 2-letter abbreviation for the state, separated by a comma. For all other locations use the city and the name of the country. Place a colon after the location, then type the name of the publisher. Place a comma after the name of the publisher, then add the year of publication. Place a period at the end. Example: Shell, Marc, ed. American Babel: Literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2002. Chicago Bibliography Format Last Name, First Name, ed. Title of Anthology in Title Case. City, State: Publisher, Year.

Alter the format for in-text footnotes. Whenever you mention the anthology in your text, place a superscript footnote number at the end of the sentence. In your footnote, type the editor's name in first name-last name order. Add the title of the book in italics, just as in your bibliography entry. Copy the publication information in parentheses, followed by a comma. End your footnote with a page number or page range where the material you mentioned can be found in the original source. Example: Marc Shell, ed. American Babel: Literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2002), 91-97. For anthologies with more than 3 editors, include only the name of the first editor in your footnote, followed by "et. al." Chicago Footnote Format First Name Last Name, ed. Title of Anthology in Title Case (City, State: Publisher, Year), Page#.