Sonny Software

This might be a silly question, but just to clear up once and for all in my mind, is the difference between 'Book", "Book Chapter' and ' Edited Book". Despite the differences within the respective reference types, do you use these reference types as follows for the Harvard system:-

Book - this is for referencing the overall book by an author(s)?

Book Chapter - this is a chapter (and specific page(s) within a book), such as when using a direct citation?

Edited Book - This is for a book that is collection of chapters by individual authors (usually experts in a specific field of knowledge), which is then complied into an book with an overall editor - An example from my field of research is "The Gower Handbook of Project Management" or the "Association for Project Management Pathways". Both have chapters written by recognised academics within their field of knowledge.

To clear this confusion up would be great as I build my dissertation and aid my learning process

Thanks,

Hi,

I think your definitions are exactly correct.

Jon
Sonny Software

At first it doesn't seem to make sense to separate them out in your database, but trust me, this is one of the most important things you should do from the start when you have a lot of those (I did and do). Once you have to conform to different standards, the separation of these formats will prove VERY beneficial... Good luck with the diss!

I've found the Replicate as Book Chapter command invaluable. If there's an edited book with many chapters of use to you, enter the info for the whole edited book, then choose Refs >> Replicate as Book Chapter. Editors, Volume, and the like are all duplicated, and you can just enter the authors, title, page numbers, etc., of a specific chapter.

Incidentally, I find the behavior when doing several of these from one book a little puzzling in one respect: Each chapter reference as it is created is inserted immediately after the edited book. Thus, if I enter the book at Ref 1900, then enter Chapter 1, this will become Ref 1901. Then I go back to Ref 1900 to replicate again to enter Chapter 2, and this will become the new 1901, Chapter 1 being pushed back to 1902. I would prefer the latest entry to become the last Ref. Any reason for this behavior?

Yes, the assumption is that you want the book chapters to follow the edited book. Once you have made one chapter, I would think you'd duplicate that for repeated chapters (and replace authors, pages, etc. with the correct information).

Jon
Sonny Software

One follow-up question - in the "Edited Book" format, there doesn't seem to be a way to add the book's volume number (for books in a series). Am I missing something?

There is no dedicated field for that, but you could user, for example, User4 or any of the others.

Jon
Sonny Software

Jon wrote:Once you have made one chapter, I would think you'd duplicate that for repeated chapters (and replace authors, pages, etc. with the correct information).

Oh! I was so excited about the replicate command that I forgot all about duplicate.