How to Write a Bibliography What is a

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 Science Fair Projects 4 Research Reports 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 plagerism 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 Mc. Kelway, 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. 1998. Vol. 2, pp 57 -62.

CD-ROM Citations 4 You need: 4 Author (if available). “Title of Article, ” Title of CD-ROM (underlined or in italics), (Edition or version). [CDROM]. City of Publication: Publisher, date of publication. 4 Example: 4 “Castle, ” Microsoft Encarta 97 Encyclopedia. [CD-ROM. ] Redmond, WA : Microsoft, 1996.

World Wide Web Citations 4 You need: 4 Author. (if known) WWW page title (underlined or in italics). [Online] Available <full http address>, (enclosed in brackets) date of visit in parentheses. 4 Example: 4 Lee, Brian. About the Middle Ages. [Online] Available <http: //geocities. com/Athens/6501/middle. html>, June 29, 1998.

E-Mail Citations 4 You need: 4 Author. <Author’s e-mail address> “Subject line in posting. ” Date of publication. Personal e-mail. (Date of access). 4 Example: 4 Post, Itnote. <Ipost@aol. com> “How to send e-mail. ” January 1998. Personal e-mail. (September 1, 1998).

A Sample Bibliography 4 Aroldi, Susan. Fifth and Sixth Grade Bibliography. [Online] Available <http: //idt. net/~saroldi/bibliography 6. html. >, July 31, 1998. 4 Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 4 th Ed. New York : MLA, 1995. 4 Marchant, Billy. Alien Cartoons. Marchant Productions, 1998.

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