Citing iBooks, Kindle books and other eBooks?
August 17th, 2010 at 18:58I just know this is going to come up in the near future when marking student essays (or writing my own papers). The ‘classic’ eBooks through the university library basically have a verbatim image of the page of a print version – citing them is easy. But what about eBooks that have repaginated the text, is there a variant way of citing these if you need to cite a page no.?
Posted by stepheng,
in Teaching/Education
August 17th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Apparently APA style has rules for Kindle, but Chicago is yet to set guidelines. Surely citing page numbers is not required when an ebook is (presumably) searchable?
August 18th, 2010 at 6:39 am
Hi Stephen,
I would really like to know this. I’m reading a lot of Kindle and iBookand don’t know how to reference them.
Hope your luggage arrived safe and sound.
Paul
August 18th, 2010 at 10:40 am
The CMoS Q&A provides an answer but no example:
Q. Are there any conventions yet for citing a text on Kindle? ….
A. …. Like unpaged online content, Kindle editions are best cited with reference to chapter titles or numbers, subheadings, or a unique phrase that can be located by searching.
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/Documentation/Documentation29.html