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bibliography or bibliographies provide an alphabetical list of
sources that may have been used in order to create a piece of
work. Bibliographies are often part of college research papers
and academic articles, and in these cases, the bibliography lists
all the works referred to in that paper or article. Now these
sources may appear in various forms, for eg. books, magazines,
newspapers, CD ROMs, Internet, interviews, etc. In fact its said
that all biographies begin with research which may include everything
from hunting in a library to searching on the Web.
Bibliographies
actually help us to acknowledge our sources, to ensure the accuracy
of the information found in the written work and last but not
the least, to give the readers information so as to identify and
consult the sources. If the bibliography is not included one may
be accused of plagiarism (which is stealing another person's ideas
or writing). Start a preliminary, or draft, bibliography by listing
on a separate sheet of paper all your sources. Note down the full
title, author, place of publication, publisher, and date of publication
for each source.
Also,
every time a fact gets recorded on a note card, its source should
be noted in the top right corner. (Notice that in the sample note
card, The World Book, Volume 2, page 21, has been shortened to:
WB, 2, p.133.) When you are finished writing your paper, you can
use the information on your note cards to double-check your bibliography.
When
assembling a final bibliography, list your sources (texts, articles,
interviews, and so on) in alphabetical order by authors' last
names. Sources that don't have authors (encyclopedias, movies)
should be alphabetized by title. There are different formats for
bibliographies.
A
Bibliography page (How
to write a Bibliography page) would consist of:
• How
to write Bibliography for Books
•
Steps to Writing a Bibliography
• Why and How
to write an Annotated Bibliography
• How to write Magazines Articles
• How to write
a Newspaper Article
• How
to write Internet Bibliography
• How to write CD-ROMs/DVDs/Videos
• How to write Email
• How to write Interviews
• Points to Remember
• Presenting a Bibliography
• How
to write Annotated Bibliography
• Textural References
Apart
from this according to the Nuts and Bolts of College Writing,
the four most common format styles are those of the Modern Language
Association of America (MLA or Bibliography
in MLA style), the American Psychological Association
(APA), the Chicago Manual of Style, and the Council of Science
Editors, formerly known as the Council of Biology Editors (CBE)
and still referred to as CBE style.
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