Bibtex: Author And Editor Inbook
Answer : The idea is that an inbook entry refers to a book entry, and therefore should not have an editor . So the following works without warning: @inbook{inbook, author = {A. Inbook-Author}, title = {The title of the inbook entry}, pages = {1--5}, year = 2013, crossref = "book", volume = 1, } @book{book, title = {A title of the book entry}, year = 2013, editor = {E. Book-Editor}, publisher = {Book Publishing Inc.}, } This is also reflected by the fact that an inbook entry has no booktitle field, not even as an option. BibTeX does not enforce that every inbook has a crossref to a book , but I guess this is the only sensible way to use it. (A little less convincing is the fact that a book also can not have author and editor .) What you are looking for is probably the incollection entry. This entry type even requires a booktitle field. Note also that there is no collection entry type, that would be the natural target of a cross-referen...