I recently bought a Kindle and I am now reading my first kindle book. And I found a problem: there are no page numbers! So, how can I quote or cite it in my thesis?
I use APA style for references. Is it different from other references system?
Great question!
There is a nice post in Booksprung about this issue, which covers the Chicago, APA, and MLA styles:
http://booksprung.com/how-to-cite-a-kindle-ebook
It also gives some workarounds if, for some reason, you have to cite the exact pages within the book.
Great question!
There is a nice post in Booksprung about this issue, which covers the Chicago, APA, and MLA styles:
http://booksprung.com/how-to-cite-a-kindle-ebook
It also gives some workarounds if, for some reason, you have to cite the exact pages within the book.
APA has recently published an electronic book (I got mine at Kindle) on 'APA Style Guide to Electronic References' They do provide an example for citing an electronic version of a book and specifically, a Kindle book. (Chapter 14)
And, they also have a Twitter account and seem to be answering questions there.
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Santiago, that is the version I use for most things -- the specfic electronic referebces book came out in May, 2012, so it is very new.
According to Google Translate:
Apart from the number of the page, there is also the chapter or section. If this is the case, then cite the paragraph even if the paragraphs are not numbered.
Example: See Chapter III, paragraph 2.
One correction Melissa...the APA style guide to electronic references available in Kindle is a supplement to the sixth edition. I think Santiago is thinking there is a new edition but there is not. For questions to e-treatment of items, if you have the print edition, then the APA blog suffices although other reviewers claim that it is not very thorough.
The whole logic behind mentioning the page number is to make the reader easier to find your reference. It is not necessary in digital publications, because we have a search function in these digital publications. Also an Index is redundant in these kind of publications.
I have seen the 'location', instead of a page number. Is that location digitally the same? Or, is the location tied to the software on the particular device? I haven't seen that APA is including that in a citation....yet.
Melissa
Hello Melissa, thank you for your contributions in this thread.
I'm not sure if I understood... By "location" do you mean a specific paragraph or section? If so, I have tried my e-books on kindle and online (using a kindle app) and it looks the same. To overcome the lack of page numbers I am using a suggestion posted by Bruno a few weeks ago: http://booksprung.com/how-to-cite-a-kindle-ebook
From that website:
"One of the author’s main points is that “people don’t rise from nothing” (Gladwell, 2008, Chapter 1, Section 2, para. 5)."
APA has a blog that is very useful: http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/electronic-references/!
Dear Helia -
This is a case of the picture really being worth a K words!
As you can see here, it really seems to be an....electronic address(?) of some sort. I included the table of contents on the left side (this is actually the APA Electronic References Guide, Sixth Edition). As you can see, the location is at the bottom of the window - and by clicking on 'Location' in that list, I can enter the location number and I'm taken to that location in the book.
I just opened a book in Kobo (a different company/reader) and it doesn't have 'location' at all - but appears to use the regular chapter/page number system.
So -- not standardized yet - but it certainly would be helpful if it were!
I always give the electronic address in the footnotes. To give an example. I have cited from a Book which was available online as html files (website format). Each chapter was about another ethnic group). I cited like this (Red Book 1991: Kurds) (Red Book1991: Pamiri People) etc.. Then I gave in the footnotes the electronic address of each chapter.
In the bibliography I included it like this. Red Book (1991). The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empires and the Soviet Union (the full title). Place of publication if available and then the electronic link (and you may also add the date of your access).
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