How do you deal with many many authors for many sections and equally many subsections in a collection?
In most cases, one of the following possibilities would be appropriate:


Cite the whole book, e.g., like this:


  A. Smith and B. Doe (editors.), Recent Advances on Synthetic Materials (Springer, New York, 2014)


Your citation manager should provide a data type for this (in BibTeX this is BOOK). In this case, you only give the editors and not every single author.

You should only cite a whole collection for purposes of providing a broader scope for your work, e.g., in the introduction.
Cite one article, e.g., like this:


  C. Foo and D. Bar, Synthetic Materials and You, in Recent Advances on Synthetic Materials, edited by A. Smith and B. Doe (Springer, New York, 2014), pp. 123–145.


Again, your citation manager should provide a data type for this (in BibTeX this is INCOLLECTION). In this case you give the authors of the relevant section and the editors (depending on the journal style).

This is what you should do if you are referencing a result or similar from an article in this collection.



  If you were to take on the task to incorporate every author for his/hers contribution, how would you do that?


Even if I somewhat came to the conclusion that (contrary to the above) citing every author were appropriate, I would not implement this, simply because no journal, supervisor, etc. will print or accept such a citation and it would be a waste of time.