Skip to Main Content

Post Graduate Health & Nursing: Books

Chapters in edited books

Many nursing books are made up of chapters written by a range of individual authors and then edited by a person or persons who put it together as a book.  For these you need to reference the author of the chapter as the author, but give credit to the editors in your reference list. 

Format

Author's Surname(s) of chapter, Initials. (Date). Title of chapter in sentence case. In Editor's initials. Editor's Surname (Ed(s).), Title of book in italic sentence case (edition information if 2nd edition or higher., pp. page range of chapter). Name of Publisher(s).

Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing

Reference List

Hales, M. (2021). Community health. In A. Berman, G. Frandsen, S. Snyder, T. Levett-Jones, A. Burston, T. Dwyer, M. Hales, N. Harvey, T. Langtree, L. Moxham, K. Reid-Searl, F. Rolf, & D. Stanley (Eds.), Kozier and Erb's fundamentals of nursing: Concepts, process and practice (5th Australian ed., Vol. 1, pp. 131–142). Pearson.

In-Text

... (Hales, 2021).

 OR 

Hales (2021) ...

Lewis's Medical-Surgical Nursing

Reference List

Goldberg, J. I., & Rosa, W. E. (2023). Pain management (M. Freeling & S. Grant, Adapters). In D. Brown, T. Buckley, R. Aitken, H. Edwards, M. M. Harding, J. Kwong, D. Hagler, & C. Reinisch (Eds.), Lewis's medical-surgical nursing: Assessment and management of clinical problems (6th Australia and New Zealand ed., pp. 92- 26). Elsevier.

In-Text

... (Goldberg & Rosa, 2023).

OR

Goldberg and Rosa (2023) ...

Potter and Perry's Fundamentals of Nursing

Reference List

Papps, E. (2021). Acting in accordance with New Zealand regulatory frameworks. In J. Crisp, C. Douglas, G. Rebeiro, & D. Waters (Eds.), Potter & Perry’s fundamentals of nursing (6th ANZ ed., pp. 259-274). Elsevier.

In-Text

... (Papps, 2021).

OR

Papps (2021) ...

Wepa's Cultural Safety

Reference List

Ramsden, I. (2015). Towards cultural safety. In D. Wepa (Ed.), Cultural safety in Aotearoa New Zealand (2nd ed., pp. 5-25). Cambridge University Press.

In-Text

... (Ramsden, 2015). 

OR

Ramsden (2015) ...