How to Write a Bibliography
What is a Bibliography? 4 A bibliography is a list of sources you use in writing a report 4 Bibliography is a Latin word meaning a list of books 4 Biblio=Books Graphy=List Bibliography=list of books
When Do We Have to Write a Bibliography? 4 Research Projects 4 Anytime you use someone else’s idea in a project
Why Do We Have to Write A Bibliography? 4 Ideas come from many sources 4 You must give credit to your sources for their ideas 4 You are guilty of plagiarism if you claim someone else’s ideas as your own
Book Citations 4 You need: 4 Author. Title of Book (underlined or in italics). City of publication: Publisher, date of publication. 4 Example: 4 Cole, Joanna. Magic School Bus Plants Seeds. New York: Scholastic, 1995.
Magazine Citations 4 You need: 4 Author (if you can find it). “Title of Article,” Magazine Title (underlined or in italics). date: page(s). 4 Example: 4 McKelway, Margaret. “The Case of the King Who Was Crazy for Castles,” National Geographic World. Aug. 1996: 2-6.
Print Encyclopedia Citations 4 You need: 4 Author of article ( found in small print at the end of the article). “Title of Article,” Title of Encyclopedia (underlined or in italics). Date or edition. Volume No., page(s). 4 Example: 4 Pickard, Don. “Balloons,” World Book Encyclopedia Vol. 2, pp
World Wide Web Citations 4 You need: 4 Author. (if known) WWW page title (underlined or in italics).[Online] Available, (enclosed in brackets) date of visit in parentheses. 4 Example: 4 Lee, Brian. About the Middle Ages. [Online] Available, June 29, 1998.
A Sample Bibliography
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