COLT: Citation On-Line Tutorial
Citing a multi-volume work can prove difficult. A reference to a work in several volumes published over a series of years should give the following information:
Here's an example. I am referring to material on pages 58 to 62 of the third volume of this five-volume work:
A. H. Johnson, The History of the Worshipful Company of Drapers of London, 5 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914-22), iii (1922), 58-62.
Note: Where all the volumes of a work were published in the same year, you only give one date of publication and you do not need to provide the date of the volume you are citing.
For this exercise, imagine you wanted to cite page 72 of this book. Don't worry about trying to produce small caps: simply use capital roman numerals for the volume number.
Tip 1: You will find all the information you need to produce your footnote on the title page and its reverse. Tip 2: Be particularly careful about how you give the publisher's name.
Philip Ward, *A Dictionary of Common Fallacies*, 2nd edn, 2 vols (Cambridge: Oleander Press, 1980), I, 72.
Philip Ward, A Dictionary of Common Fallacies, 2nd edn, 2 vols (Cambridge: Oleander Press, 1980), i, 72.
There were several parts to perfecting this footnote reference:
Note: If you are citing a work in several volumes which is incomplete and still in the process of publication, the date of the first volume should be stated, followed by a dash. For instance:
The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, ed. by Nadine Akkerman, 3 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011-), ii (2011).
Or
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, ed. by Gary A. Stringer, 8 vols (Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1955-), viii (1995).
Exercise 13: A Book (in many volumes) >>>