When we
cite pages in books and magazines we often want to be fairly specific
about where a passage starts.
This is a trick that was used informally in UCLA's philosophy department.
<--p. 27.3
Give the page number as the integral part of a number and the quarter as the fractional part. Cite the quarter of the page in which a given sentence begins. The first and last quarters include the upper and lower margins.
In many printing processes, the location of the print on the page varies slightly -- sometimes generating small mislocations.
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This is a trick that was used informally in UCLA's philosophy department.
- Imagine the page of a book divided into quarters -- vertically. Or even
- Take a piece of paper, cut it to the vertical length of the books pages, then fold it in quarters.
<--p. 27.3Give the page number as the integral part of a number and the quarter as the fractional part. Cite the quarter of the page in which a given sentence begins. The first and last quarters include the upper and lower margins.
In many printing processes, the location of the print on the page varies slightly -- sometimes generating small mislocations.
Return to... Home page Site map/contents