Referencing several parts of the same work (e.g., chapters in a book).

[Joan G]

If we want to reference a book for multiple pages (let’s say we want to reference it for two different topics), do we have to write the book twice in the bibliography? Or just specify the page in the body text?

[Simon King]

If the whole book is by the same author(s), it should appear only once in the bibliography.

If the book is a collection of chapters by different authors, then each chapter should be a separate entry in the bibliography, under the appropriate author(s).

When citing any longer work, and especially a book, you should narrow down the citation at the point where you cite it, to help your reader precisely locate the material you are implicitly asking them to read. This could be to a chapter, section, or page(s), such as:

“Text processing for TTS usually involves a sequence of diverse operations. Some are as simple as splitting sentences into tokens, others as challenging as disambiguating homographs (Taylor, 2009, Section 4.1).”

Omitting the section number in the above example implies that you expect the reader to read the entire book in order to locate the material supporting your claim. That is an easy way to annoy your reader.

I generally prefer to use section or chapter rather than page number because this should be more consistent across different editions, the e-book version, and so on.

Citing an entire long work would only be appropriate if it really is the entire work that supports your claim, such as:

“Taylor (2009) provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in TTS as it was in 2009, but there have been significant developments since then.”

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