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1.3 Giving page numbers

Provide page numbers whenever a direct quotation is made, or where a point from a specific page or pages is paraphrased:

The national college entrance exam, the world’s largest university entrance examination, was sat by 10.38 million students this year (Gill 2008, p. 15).

 

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Find out whether to use the abbreviations ‘p.’ or ‘pp.’ for multiple pages before a page number.
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Be aware that some departments may insist that every reference citation is accompanied by a page number.
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Another variation is to use a comma after the surname and a colon between the year of publication and page number with the space removed e.g. (Foucault, 1977:173). 
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