Some books contain chapters written by different authors. Each chapter relates to the theme of the book. These books are subjected to an editorial process, and they are also called 'edited books'. The editor usually writes an introduction to the book (Reitz 2007).
Handbook of Disaster Research (Rodriguez, Quarantelli & Dynes 2006) for example, has 32 chapters, each one written by a different author. The contents pages list the title and author of each chapter:
Sources:
Reitz, JM 2007, ODLIS: Online dictionary for library and information science, Libraries Unlimited, viewed 7 August 2008, http://lu.com/odlis/about.cfm
Rodriguez, H, Quarantelli, EL & Dynes, RR 2006, Handbook of disaster research, Springer, New York.
