How do I find the page number of a digital resource for citation purposes?

I need to be able to put a page number after a citation, and I can't find them. Specifically, I'm currently looking at the Expositor's Bible Commentary, but I have this problem often where I can't find a page number. My last professor gave me a hard time about not putting page numbers after my citations.

Thanks for your help.

Cynthia

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Lynden O. Williams

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JT (alabama24)

I need to be able to put a page number after a citation, and I can't find them. Specifically, I'm currently looking at the Expositor's Bible Commentary, but I have this problem often where I can't find a page number.

Not all resources have page numbers. Typically Logos editions do, whereas Vyrso editions do not. If the resource DOES have page numbers, there are two ways to determine the page. First. there is a box with the page number(s) displayed (see red arrow). Secondly, you can turn on the page number visual filter and see where the page breaks are located (see green annotations).

For resources which don't have page numbers, you can use your style guide to determine how to appropriately cite the resource location. The use of logosres might work.

Robert M. Warren

Hi Cynthia:

If the resource doesn't have page numbers, and page numbers are absolutely non-negotiable with your teacher/institution, you could try one more thing. Search books.google.com to see if your title is available. If it is, the summary page has a search box; search on your estimate of the most unique phrase in the section. The search result(s) should display the page number(s).

[Edit : Obviously I misunderstood the problem, i.e., I thought the resource had no page numbers tagged. Sorry to further cloud up a struggling thread.]

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/838334#Comment_838334

If the resource doesn't have page numbers, and page numbers are absolutely non-negotiable with your teacher/institution, you could try one more thing. Search books.google.com to see if your title is available. If it is, the summary page has a search box; search on your estimate of the most unique phrase in the section. The search result(s) should display the page number(s).

The same idea could work with the search function in Amazon.com

David Ames

My last professor gave me a hard time about not putting page numbers after my citations.

An open discussion, in class, about e-versions lack of page numbers might help especially if the discussion is requested the day after one discovers that the resource does not have page numbers rather then just before the paper is due [[when you knew that there were no page numbers months before]]

What if [[not sure this will work but]] :

The e-version of this of this work that I used does not have page numbers but the item that I quoted is in the xxx-number paragraph after the heading "XXXXXXXXX - heading text". It is yyy-number paragraph before the "YYYYYYY - heading text. It is in chapter nnnn-chapter number. The unique search string to find this reference is "sldkflhmd lsdhf kd" [[inserting the needed numbers and text]]

[[If the author has sub chapter numbers or headings maybe also reference the textual in distance paragraphs from them??]]

Chris Miller

Cynthia,

If you copy the desired text and paste it into MS Word it automatically includes a footnote (with the page number). IMO this is the easiest way to determine the page numbers while also citing your source. Just make sure that you choose the appropriate citation style in the program settings.