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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Books which are edited

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

Books which are edited

The required elements for the reference are:

Editor Surname, INITIALS followed by ed. (Year) Title of book. Edition (if not the first). Place of publication: Publisher.

Reference List

Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment - 1st edition and with 1 editor:

Hayes, C. ed. (2013) Professional practice for podiatric medicine. Keswick: M&K Update. 

In-text citation

Example 1 - where the editor's name occurs naturally in the sentence (1 editor)

Hayes (2013) found that...

 

Reference List

Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment - with two editors

David, C. and Lloyd, J. eds. (1999) Rheumatological physiotherapy. London: Mosby. 

In-text citation

Example 1 - where the editor's name does not occur naturally in the sentence (2 editors)

Recent research has demonstrated (David and Lloyd 2013)...

 

Reference List

Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment - 2nd or subsequent edition and with more than two editors

Bryant, W., Fieldhouse, J. and Bannigan, K. eds. (2014) Creek's occupational therapy and mental health. 5th ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.

In-text citation

Example 1 - where the editor's name occurs naturally in the sentence (More than 2 editors)

Bryant et al. (2014) found that.....

 

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