My students are starting to use ebooks and Kindles more and more and when using in-text quotes and citations we are confused about what to do regarding pagination credit, as there really are no pages. Can you suggest how I would do an in-text citation, say, Far from the Madding Crowd, if I don't have a page number? (I get what to do in Work Cited, but not within the paper).

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My students are starting to use ebooks and Kindles more and more and when using in-text quotes and citations we are confused about what to do regarding pagination credit, as there really are no pages.  Can you suggest how I would do an in-text citation, say, Far from the Madding Crowd, if I don't have a page number?  (I get what to do in Work Cited, but not within the paper).

anonymous · Answer

Sorry - I forgot to mention this is for MLA.

anonymous · Answer

Your students? And you cant figure this out? In any citation you can only include the information that is given to you. If there is no page number to reference material then you much use a subtitle or paragraph number. Hope this helps.

anonymous · Answer

usually in the Kindle there is a chapter divisions....and they still can have page numbers.  However, you might want to go to the official MLA Website to see how they are handling new technology.  This isn't an easy question.