Edited volumes

These are a collection of essays by different authors.

The information required for edited volumes in lists of references includes the following (in this precise order):

1. author’s last name + COMMA + SPACE

2. capital initial of author’s first name + FULL STOP + SPACE

3. ‘(ed.)’ + FULL STOP + SPACE

4. year of publication + FULL STOP + SPACE

5. Title of Publication (in italics, with capital initials for content words) + FULL STOP + SPACE

6. place of publication + COLON + SPACE

7. publisher + FULL STOP

Regarding point 2 - it is acceptable to use the author’s first name rather than an initial but the choice (name vs. initial) must be consistent throughout the list of references.

The same rules for multiple authorship apply as for monographs, and ‘(ed.)’ changes to ‘(eds)’ (without full stop).

Note that the singular form ‘(ed.)’ is followed by a full stop but the plural form ‘(eds)’ is not. The rule (in British English) is that a full stop is only used when the last letter of the abbreviation is NOT the last letter of the word. Hence Prof. X but Dr Y.