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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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Interesting,
I had always been told use either MLA or APA formatting for referencing. Though the both look close to what you did, but the page number would be on the reference page. And just a small number by the reference in the paper.