[Tex/LaTex] Citing book chapter from a book series

bibliographies

I am wondering the best practices for citing a chapter from a book which is part of a book series. I'm having trouble finding good answers online, and it seems from other articles, that there are several ways to do this.

I use Mendeley for my article/book/chapter handling, and the relevant type would be Book Section, but here I can only enter one "Title" and one "Book". My question is then if I should write the Series Name of the Name of this specific Volume in the "Book" field. Or should I completely ignore one of them?

Best Answer

I visited the publisher's own website for the publication in question, clicked on the "Export to BibTeX" button, and retrieved the following bibliographic entry, minimally pretty-printed. (The only substantive change I made as to take "Chapter Six:" out of the title field and create a separate chapter field to store this piece of observation.) Observe that the entry type is @incollection.

@incollection{abril-etal:2013,
  author       = "Isabel Abril and Rafael Garcia-Molina and Pablo de
                  Vera and Ioanna Kyriakou and Dimitris Emfietzoglou",
  title        = "Inelastic Collisions of Energetic Protons in Biological Media",
  editor       = "D{\v z}evad Belki{\'c}",
  booktitle    = "{Theory of Heavy Ion Collision Physics in Hadron Therapy}",
  year         = 2013,
  chapter      = 6,
  pages        = "129--164",
  series       = "Advances in Quantum Chemistry",
  publisher    = "Academic Press",
  volume       = 65,
  number       = "Supplement C",
  issn         = "0065-3276",
  doi          = "https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-396455-7.00006-6",
  url          = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123964557000066",
}

You should be able to import this information directly into Mendeley.

Assuming this entry is stored in a bib file called mybib.bib, the following MWE, which loads the apacite citation management package and the apacite bibliography style, will format it according to APA, 6th ed. guidelines.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[a4paper,margin=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[hyphens]{url}
\frenchspacing % optional

\usepackage[natbibapa]{apacite}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}

\begin{document}
\citet{abril-etal:2013}
\bibliography{mybib}
\end{document} 

Obviously, many other bibliography styles may be used instead of apacite.