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  • Overview

Overview & standards

  • 1. Purpose and scope
  • 2. Quick reference
  • 3. Governing authority
  • 4. Why we reference
  • 5. Document formatting

Footnotes & bibliography

  • 6. Footnote citations
  • 7. Bibliography

Citing by source

  • 8. Journal articles
  • 9. Books
  • 10. Book chapters
  • 11. Kindle eBooks
  • 12. Scripture
  • 13. Confessions and creeds
  • 14. Classical theological works
  • 15. Lecture notes and videos
  • 16. Web and online sources
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11. Kindle eBooks

Academic sources accessed via Kindle can lack accurate page numbers. In this case, use Kindle location numbers to identify the section of the text that you cite.

11.1 Footnoting Kindle eBooks with chapter and subheading (Preferable)

Footnote

Author First Last, Title of Book (Place: Publisher, Year), chap. X, sec. Y.

Example

  1. Michael J. Kruger, Canon Revisited: Establishing the Origins and Authority of the New Testament Books, (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), chap. 3, “The Components of a Self-Authenticating Canon.”

11.2 Footnoting Kindle eBooks with Kindle Locations (Acceptable)

Footnote

Author First Last, Title of Book (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), Kindle loc. xxxx–xxxx.

Example

1.    Michael Horton, The Christian Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Kindle loc. 512–18.

11.3 Kindle eBook Bibliography

Kindle books do not require special labelling in the bibliography.

Bibliography

Last, First. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.

Example

Horton, Michael. The Christian Faith. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011.

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