Book One Editor Edition Number

First edition first impression.

Book one editor edition number. And second edition first impression. The copyright page always goes before the dedication or acknowledgements page if there is one. When citing a chapter the edition number the volume number which is different from a journal s volume number and the page range are all enclosed within the same parentheses in that order after the title of the book and they are separated by commas.

Cite the book as you normally would but add the number of the edition after the title. If present the printer s key in the copyright page of a book can be used to identify the. The reasoning behind removing the lowest number from the string is that if the printer is only removing one number they are less likely to make a mistake than if they are introducing a new number each time.

For example a number line that reads 5 6 7 8 9 indicates a fifth printing. Occasionally a number line will be accompanied by a date line. The confusions of young torless by robert musil translated by shaun whiteside penguin classics 2001 pp.

Very successful books may have 50 or more. If you are citing a portion of the book written by the editor begin with the editor. Book with author s and editors s citing a portion written by the editor s coetzee vi viii coetzee j.

If your citation is to the work of the editor begin with the editor name s. With each printing of a book the publisher instructs the printer to remove the lowest number that indicated that run. Book with one author or editor sec.

For the second printing the 1 is removed so the 2 is the lowest number present. Otherwise the copyright page is before the table of contents. A scholarly edition is a work prepared for publication by someone other than the author usually an editor 5 5 10.