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How To Write A Bibliography

This document provides guidelines for writing a bibliography including common publication types such as books, articles, newspapers and websites. It emphasizes including sufficient detail in references to allow items to be traced and outlines key information to include for different source types such as author, title, date and URL. Annotations describing what was useful about each reference should also be included if requested.

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How To Write A Bibliography

This document provides guidelines for writing a bibliography including common publication types such as books, articles, newspapers and websites. It emphasizes including sufficient detail in references to allow items to be traced and outlines key information to include for different source types such as author, title, date and URL. Annotations describing what was useful about each reference should also be included if requested.

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Writing a Bibliography

A bibliographical reference should contain sufcient information for someone else or


yourself to trace the item in a Library or on the Internet. As you begin your search,
keep a careful note of the full details of all the items you use. This can be time
consuming but it is well worth it. The following are common types of publication:
a) A book by a single author:
Watson, . !"##$% Heinemann Interactive Science 1. &ort 'elbourne, (einemann.
b) A book by two authors:
Wilson, ) and *auer, *. !"##+% Dynamic Science 2 ,ydney, 'c-raw.(ill.
c) A book by three or more authors:
Thickett, -. et al !+///% Science Tracks ,8 ,outh 0arra, 'c'illan
d) An edition of an authors work:
,mith, 1. !+///% Conquering Chemistry. Third edition. ,ydney, 'c-raw.(ill
e) An article in a periodical/journal:
,alt, ). !+//"% 2Australia . an ancient legacy3. Helix, 4o.$" "/.""
f) A newspaper article
*enson ,. and Lawrence 5. !+//+% 2After the Inferno the bush is born again3.
Daily Telegrah, !anuary 2"
g) World Wide Web site
When your information sources come from the World Wide Web. 0our bibliography
should contain as many items from the following lists as are rele6ant and a6ailable:
4ame of the author, editor by last name and followed by any appropriate
abbre6iations, such as ed.
Title of a poem, short story, article, database or periodical, in quotation marks
Title of a book, in italics or underlined
4ame of the editor, preceded by any appropriate abbre6iations, such as ed.
)ate of electronic publication or posting or latest update, whiche6er is most
recent !if known%
4ame of any institution or organisation sponsoring or associated with the
website
)ate you accessed the source
71L 8in angle brackets9
Although no single entry will contain all these items of information, all web pages
contain the following basic information:
nline !ocument
Author3s name !last name :rst%
)ocument title.
)ate of Internet publication.
)ate of access ;71L<
"ersonal #ite
&otter, =ran,. =rank &otter3s ,cience -ems (ome page. > =eb. +//+. ? =eb. +//+
;http:@@www.sciencegems.com@<
"rofessional #ite
4,W )epartment of Aducation and Training (ome &age. =eb. +//+. 4,W
)epartment of Aducation and Training ? =eb. +//+ http:@@www.det.nsw.edu.au@
Annotation: If your assignment asks you to annotate each reference then you need
to:
Aach of your references needs to be immediately followed by a sentence or two,
describing what
you found useful in this reference.

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