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Originally Posted by ApK
I reject the notion of needing literal page numbers for external published citations. They change from edition to edition anyway, any page number you give requires specifying the edition, and would, presumably, requiter a fact-checker to seek out that edition, so you might as well cite using, say, the Kindle location, and specify that as your edition.
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The standard used for academic referencing by pretty much everyone is called the "Harvard Referencing System", and that does require page numbers. In your text you say, for example:
"It is a well-established fact that Egyptian pyramids were built by aliens [Jones 2000, p.125]"
and then in your list of references:
Jones, P.D.Q. (2000).
Who built the Egyptian Pyramids? Cambridge University Press.
So, as you see, the reference specifies the precise edition. This is of course not an issue for the overwhelming majority of referencing, given that references are generally to non-fiction sources which are normally only published by a single publisher, so the issue of multiple alternative editions rarely arises.