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thibaulthalpern · 03-11-2009, 02:57 AM

Hmm...referencing line, act, chapter and so forth does not work for the majority of academic texts because we don't sequence our text that way. It's not a play after all. I have wondered about this problem of citation for ebooks too.

Look at this website for a short example of what APA and MLA suggests:
http://www.lambuth.edu/academics/lib...ingebooks.html

However, this is not too helpful because we won't be able to quickly locate a particular quote (no page number cited) unless we use the ebook which then means we'd have to have access to a reader that can read that ebook.

03-11-2009, 02:57 AM	#3
thibaulthalpern Evangelist Posts: 478 Karma: 451808 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: California, USA Device: my two eyes, KLiiK, Sony PRS-700	Hmm...referencing line, act, chapter and so forth does not work for the majority of academic texts because we don't sequence our text that way. It's not a play after all. I have wondered about this problem of citation for ebooks too. Look at this website for a short example of what APA and MLA suggests: http://www.lambuth.edu/academics/lib...ingebooks.html However, this is not too helpful because we won't be able to quickly locate a particular quote (no page number cited) unless we use the ebook which then means we'd have to have access to a reader that can read that ebook.