IMO, the chief issue (although not the original question that launched the thread) is not whether it is possible to cite something with no pagination (or no date) -- because, yes, it always has been possible -- but whether there is a more useful way to cite current electronic publications that have some sort or another of "location" information already in them, as well as what would be useful ways to design (leaving aside the technical implementation considerations) the marking locations and/or sections in the contents in electronic publications without fixed pagination (because it is most useful to be able to use citation information to actually locate the contents to which the author intended to refer).
Cheers, Carl
On 06 Oct 2010, at 19:11 , NORMAN wrote:
There used to be abbreviations "np" and "nd" for 'no date' and 'no pagination'. Are those no longer in use ?
On 10/6/2010 5:00 PM, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
Indeed, my first thought is that we need to back to "old school" "section sign" (ยง) markings! I suppose these could be embedded but optionally made invisible (particularly in everyday fiction publications) to avoid freaking out the reader ....
Cheers, Carl
On 06 Oct 2010, at 16:38 , Welzenbach, Rebecca wrote:
I hope we'll ultimately move (revert?) to citing based on how the content is structured--chapter& verse, so to speak--rather than how any one device (including a particular edition of a book) displays it.
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