i was really hoping there were some standard guidelines out there (like maybe Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, anyone! of prestige) so i could convince my technophobic professor "it's okay, see? they do this, too" but i don't think it's going to pass mustard with him.
scientific referencing needs to be precise and more importantly standardized.
all guidelines i've found so far refer to articles and their urls, even though they say "ebooks."
i was really hoping i could buy the ebook and have it in a couple of seconds rather than go for the more expensive paperback and wait for at least a month for it to get here in the back of beyond (and before you ask, express delivery is a no-go, it's almost the price of the book, sometimes, even above it...)
it's a classical case of the academic world having to catch up with the times.