What's the difference between 'edition' and 'volume'?

Question

I'm using endnote to reference and it wants to know the edition and volume of the edited book i'm referencing.

What's a volume and what's an edition and what's the difference?

Answer 1

edition refers to the year it was made or the version it is 1.0, 2.0 etc...



volume refers to which part in the edition you gathered your information...

Answer 2

Some publications cannot be fitted into a single book or journal, so they split it across multiple volumes.



Also, sometimes a given publication is revised/updated and re-published, in which case the re-published version is a "new edition".



The volume and/or edition of the book should be written on the cover or on the rights page (the page that contains the publication and copyright information).



Not all books or publications have multiple editions or volumes, in which case you can leave those fields blank, and endnote will ignore them.

Answer 3

In Harvard, Chicago and APA referencing systems the edition usually refers to the year of printing EG 1998 edition or 2005 edition. However it can occasionally refer to version 2.0 or 2.1 etc (I have never seen this).



Volume refers to the number in a series of books for example if a set of books has been printed several times then you could have 1998 edition volume 4 which would mean the set printed in 1998 and number 4 in the set of 20.

Answer 4

Encyclopedia Britannica comes in both volumes and editions.



When the publications comes in multiple books, it has several volumes. For instance, Encyclopedia Britannica vol III.



When the publication is revised over time, it has several editions. For instance, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23rd Edition.



So you can get both, for instance Encyclopedia Britannica vol III, 23rd Edition.