How about the Chicago Manual of Style citation guidelines, 16th edition? Presumably journal editors/reviewers would find *those* acceptable. http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html I quote here, minus italics: Book published electronically If a book is available in more than one format, cite the version you consulted. For books consulted online, list a URL; include an access date only if one is required by your publisher or discipline. If no fixed page numbers are available, you can include a section title or a chapter or other number. 1. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (New York: Penguin Classics, 2007), Kindle edition. 2. Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders’ Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), accessed February 28, 2010, http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/. 3. Austen, Pride and Prejudice. 4. Kurland and Lerner, Founder’s Constitution, chap. 10, doc. 19. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Penguin Classics, 2007. Kindle edition. Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. The Founders’ Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Accessed February 28, 2010. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/. --LD On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:40 PM, <air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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how about a group that centers on bibliography and citation much more closely, like MLA or IFLA or somesuch?
as for page numbers, let me say this... if you submit a paper to a journal and it comes to me without them or some similarly recognized convention, I'm probably going to note that in the review and require it to be done, and I think any editor or reviewer would do the same. As i said, i don't think you necessarily need them for direct quotes, and i think you don't necessarily need them in certain other common sense instances, but sometimes... for reference page numbers or other indexical values are necessary. If a reviewer or editor can't find what you are talking about in a text, they should be... worried... Currently then, the practice is to include them for due diligence. Whether, that changes in our lifetime... i don't know, it could. Should we reject it or change it, for my part, no. I like page numbers immensely, they make my life much easier.
-- Dr. Lane DeNicola Lecturer in Digital Anthropology Department of Anthropology University College London http://www.lanedenicola.name