Question/problem with Turabian citation methodology

Antonius

Part of my Introduction to Moral Theology homework assignment this week is quote an author and make the citation using Turabian methodology.

So when I do that I get this result:

Augustine of Hippo, “On the Morals of the Catholic Church,” in A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, First Series: St. Augustin: The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists, ed. Philip Schaff, trans. Richard Stothert, vol. 4 (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1887), 48.

The 48 at the very end of the citation seams to indicate the page.  So my problem is that page number seams to be worthless in Logos because every resource/book is setup in chapter.sentence format. Page 48 is nowhere near as helpful as 15.25 (chapter 15, sentence 25).  My professor wants Turabian, so I give him Turabian.

The question for anyone here is what citation methodology do you use that provides chapter.sentence format, so that your work is easily looked up in Logos?

Thank you,
Tony

Rosie Perera

Logos links are actually character offsets from the beginning of an "article" (and articles are usually chapter boundaries, but can be other units). I know of not citation methodology that uses chapter.sentence. There are some very well known resources (such as Early Church Fathers) that use chapter (or section) and paragraph citations. So those would look like §3.2. Logos does not create those kinds of citations automatically at present, unfortunately.

If you're citing a quotation in a digital book, people don't need to know exactly what page or chapter/sentence it's from. They could always do a search if they had the digital resource. If they didn't have the digital resource, then page number would be more helpful for them in tracking down where your citation came from. And that's still the standard anyway, so go with it.

If the book is not paginated however (which is increasingly the case with digital books, and all Vyrso books as far as I'm aware), the best you can do is give a Logos link to the location (which you can get by pressing Ctrl+Alt+C when that location is scrolled to the top of the resource window), but even a link is not required. Turabian has some standards for citing digital resources:

When you cite books published in other electronic formats, such as those available for download or other delivery from a bookseller or library, identify the format (CD-ROM, Microsoft Reader e-book).

N:      1. Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck, The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2001), TK3 Reader e-book.

B: Hellman, Hal. Great Feuds in Technology: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever. New York: John Wiley, 2004. Rocket e-book.

This is under Turabian's section "17.1.10 Online and Other Electronic Books" and here's the citation provided for me by Kindle when I copied it:

Turabian, Kate L.; Williams, Joseph M.; Colomb, Gregory G.; Booth, Wayne C. (2009-08-14). A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Seventh Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and) (p. 181). University of Chicago Press. Kindle Edition.